Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spider commonly found in houses, as Tegenaria domestica and Theridium vulgare, both of the family Theridiidæ.
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Examples
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Tegenaria, a large black spider, long-legged and very swift, a well-known kind of house-spider.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen
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How did the stork get on without his chimney, the merry sparrow without his gutter, the clothes-moth without cupboards, the house-spider without dirty corners and ceilings?
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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He could tell you how many legs are flourished by the house-spider, and was thoroughly versed in the anatomy of the common gnat.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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But this house-spider, which glided with so much ease after its flies, through webs so numerous and mazy, had yet to amuse Madame di Negra with assurances that the fugitives sought for would sooner or later be discovered.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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The cricket is a scavenger, and besides cheering us by his sprightly song, rids the floor of tiny atoms of insanitary dust, and the house-spider preys on the clothes-moth.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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A perfect specimen of the common house-spider, I'll lay my life.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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Her universal remedy was a large house-spider alive, and enveloped in treacle or preserve.
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But this house-spider, which glided with so much ease after its flies, through webs so numerous and mazy, had yet to amuse Madame di Negra with assurances that the fugitives sought for would sooner or later be discovered.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But this house-spider, which glided with so much ease after its flies, through webs so numerous and mazy, had yet to amuse Madame di Negra with assurances that the fugitives sought for would sooner or later be discovered.
My Novel — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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By the way, the housemaids here are infernally officious; you haven't _seen_ a good specimen of the common house-spider anywhere about, have you? "
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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