a. (same deriv.) = ARACHNOID.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Araneous (araneosus), ful of spiders webs.

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1693.  Phil. Trans., XVII. 621. Its leaves break with araneous filaments.

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1696.  Phillips, Araneous Tunicle, the Tunicle that surrounds the Crystalline Humor.

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1713.  Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. ii. 102. Its [the eye’s] curious Araneous Membrane.

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1880.  in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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