Crossword-Solution: ARANEA 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

There are great varieties of spiders in Ceylon, one of which is of such enormous size as to resemble the Aranea avicularia of America.

Among the capricious freaks of that emperor, it is said that he undertook to investigate the statistics of the arachnoid population of the capital, and that 10,000 pounds of spiders (or spiders' webs--for aranea is equivocal) were readily collected; but when he got up a mouse-show, he thought ten thousand mice a very fair number.

One is extremely abundant on the pampas, the Mygale fusca, a veritable monster, covered with dark brown hair, and called in the vernacular _aranea peluda_--hairy spider.

For instance, the 'aranea theologica' may draw out the whole web of the Westminster Catechism from the simple creed of the beloved Disciple,--'whoever believeth with his heart, and professeth with his mouth, that Jesus is Lord and Christ,'--shall be saved.

Intra hanc Ecclesiam nunquam musca, vel aranea, aut huiusmodi immundi vermiculi nascuntur, quod similiter per diuinum accidit miraculum: nam antè replebatur Ecclesia talibus immunditiis, et totus conuentus recederet ad construendum Ecclesiam in alio loco.