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Long, thin and angular
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spidery
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, "long and thin," from spider + -y (2).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few were connected with neighbouring towers by spidery bridges, 1,000 feet above ravines of deepest blue. ▪ Her hair is pure white, her face covered with spidery lines, but her eyes are absolutely clear, sparkling. ▪ Lest ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida [syn: arachnoid , arachnidian , spiderlike , spiderly ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Like a spider. 2 Characterized by many spindly extensions.
Usage examples of spidery.
He is rather like that detestable and spidery thing the araucaria, which has a wound for every tender hand, and invites no bright-eyed feathered songsters to perch or build among its sinister branches.
Gerald Sessions, my superior, a spindly black man with a handsome, open face and freckly light complexion and spidery arms that possessed inordinate strength.
It was Gerald Sessions, my superior, a spindly black man with a handsome, open face and freckly light complexion and spidery arms that possessed inordinate strength.
Damage control robots swarmed like spidery hands, weird shadows against the flames, and Hazzard caught the acrid stink of burning insulation and fire-smothering kaon gas.
The spidery gray body of the Mnemonist stirred with the chemical echoes that reverberated through his old veins.
As the caravan snaked its way down this road, it could be seen that dwellings existed atop the columns, angular houses of pebbles and clay, and these were linked to one another by spidery suspended bridges and attenuated ropes.
A large branch rushed past her, catching her with the tip of a spidery limb that almost knocked her off balance Bounder, frightened by the object, reared up and jerked her backward off her feet.
Sonja removed the note and read it, deciphering the spidery script that seemed both calligraphy and a spirograph drawing - the secret language of the Pretenders.
The brick viaducts which carry this arch the Spree again and again in their course through and around the city, but with never quite such spectacular effects as our spidery tressels, achieve.
Sunbright had clamped down on his stomach as the air-boat lifted into the night sky, drifted, tacked, dropped and lurched in capricious air pockets, and finally docked, a mile in the air, at the spidery airdocks of Ioulaum.
When they turned right onto Broad Street Benner pulled one of his pistolsa four-barrelled thing, looking all spidery with its multiple flintcocks and flashpan coverscompletely out of the leather sack and leaned his elbow on the coach roof with the gun very evident, pointed at the sky.
If you look down from your bedroom window you can see the spidery Gaussian architecture of Fantasyland, a hyperevolved Crystal Palace where the latest technological artifacts are made available to an increasingly jaded and unsettled public.
Silence glanced over her shoulder for the spidery homunculus that monitored the hall to keep the apprentices at work.
Bram could see the camera crew perched high on the spidery platform of an interbranch shuttle vehicle, where they had an overall view.
He reached for another sheet of paper and scrawled two lines across its china-clay surface, then signed the sheet with spidery handwriting and pushed it across the desk towards the Khedive, his fingers shaking.