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English → English (gcide) Definition: Dolomedes lanceolatus Water spider \Wa“ter spi”der\ (Zo["o]l.) (a) An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider. (b) A water mite. (c) Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water, especially the large American species (Dolomedes lanceolatus ) which runs rapidly on the surface of water; -- called also raft spider. [1913 Webster]