Modifies a noun

• flower: The curious, spidery flowers of this witch hazel look great illuminated by the winter sun.

• handwriting: He looked down at the small scrap of paper in his hand, the spidery handwriting barely legible.

• hand: His only physical manifestation is in a number of messages written in a spidery hand on thin pieces of white card.

• line: The loose specimen has the same distinct coloring of spidery lines and fits well into the vault.

• vein: Toss in a bat's wing with spidery veins, Pour in the contents of odorous drains.

• finger: Then he folds his spidery fingers, looks away and back again.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Neat layout, but much of the finer text looks spidery against the background.