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n.
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
n.
One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.
p. pl.
A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.
n.
A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.
n. pl.
The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
v. i.
To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
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n. pl.
A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.
v. i.
To prey. See 4th Tire.
v. i.
To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
v. t.
To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
n.
A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
v. i.
To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
a.
Rich in prey.
a.
Disposed to take prey.
n.
Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
n.
One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.
n.
The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
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