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▪ I. retiary, n.|ˈriːʃɪərɪ|
[See prec. and -ary.]
1. = retiarius. rare—0.
1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Retiary, he that casts a net, properly in fighting to take his enemy.
2. A net-making or geometrical spider.
1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvii. 184, I shall consider those [spiders] I intend to notice, under the usual names of weavers and retiaries.
▪ II. retiary, a.|ˈriːʃɪərɪ|
[f. as prec.]
1. Pertaining or relating to the making of webs, nets, or net-like structures.
1658Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii. 41 And beside this kinde of work in Retiarie and hanging tectures, in embroderies, and eminent needle-works [etc.]. 1854Badham Halieut. 197 No other combination of meshes can convey such an idea of human ingenuity and inventiveness in the retiary art.
2. a. Fighting with a net; using a net like a retiarius. Also fig.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 42 That the networks..of antiquity were little different in the form from ours.., is confirmable from the nets of the Retiarie gladiators. 1682― Chr. Mor. i. §24 Our inward Antagonists,..like Retiary and Laqueary Combatants, with Nets, Frauds and Entanglements fall upon us. 1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 298 Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
b. Using a net to catch Lepidoptera.
1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory vi. 131 America has shown even more of this morbid interest in my retiary activities.
3. retiary spider, a spider which constructs a proper net; a geometrical spider.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xix. (1686) 214 We will not dispute the Pictures of Retiary Spiders, and their position in the Web. 1658― Gard. Cyrus ii. 42 The neat Retiarie Spider, which seems to weave without transversion. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xiii. (1818) I. 421 note, May not the spinners..be peculiar to the retiary spiders, and furnish this viscid thread? 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. 185 The organs by which the retiary spiders form their curious geometric snares. |