spideress

noun

1. (rare)A female spider.

   “What shrieks and groans of widow spideresses and orphaned spiderets must haunt his guilty slumbers!”

   “In one crotch of the old peach-tree, just by the wall, sat a second cousin of the little eight-eyed fellow we had left up stairs, with her web spread on the most geometric model, and a young and promising family of spiders and spideresses practising gymnastics in the fairy rigging; […]”

   “There were numerous attractions. There was the great American cobweb, with the Misses Spickett and Ellman as spideresses.”