Definition of "spidery" []

• Resembling a spider in form, characteristics, or behavior. (adjective)
• Resembling a spider's web; very fine: spidery handwriting. (adjective)
• Infested with spiders. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Of course, I would have to keep copious research notes in spidery handwriting in a leather-bound notebook, so that after my successor found the notebook with my remains, my research could go on unabated."
• "Make sure your child wears gloves and long-sleeved garments if she is going to be handling wood for the fireplace, cleaning out the attic or garage, or working in the garden or some other "spidery" places."
• "UNEF's first starships had been possessed of a kind of spidery, delicate beauty."