a. Obs. [-OUS.] Spider-like.
1533. Frith, Judgem. Tracy, Wks. (1572), 78/1. There is no man that can receive venome by those wordes, except hee haue such a spyderous nature that he can turne an hony combe into perilous poyson.
1648. Symmons, Vindic., 319. In which they speak truth, and had not themselves been of too spiderous a nature they might have made much good vse of them.
