retiary
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
retiary (not comparable)
- net-like
- Template:RQ:Browne Garden
- And, beside this kind of work in retiary and hanging textures
- Template:RQ:Browne Garden
- Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; said of certain spiders.
- Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangling.
- Template:RQ:Coleridge Notes on Jeremy Taylor
- scholastic retiary versatility of logic
- Template:RQ:Coleridge Notes on Jeremy Taylor
Noun
retiary (plural retiaries)
- (zoology) Any spider that spins webs to catch its prey.
- (historical) A retiarius: a gladiator who fought with a net.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “retiary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)