ettercap, addercap

[ATTERCOPPE.] A spider; hence (fig.) a virulent, atrabilious person. ( Scotch.) "A fiery ettercap , a fractious chiel, As het as ginger, and as stieve as steel." Scott: Waverley , ch. lxiv. *et-ticke, *ethic, *ethike, a . [Fr. étique .] Hectic, ague. "A sickne e like the fever etticke fittes." Promos and Cas sandra, iii. 1. *ět-tin, s . [A. S. eoten .] A giant. "They say the king of Portugal cannot sit at his meat, but the giants and the ettins will come and snatch it from him."-Beaum. & Fletcher : Knight of the Burning Pestle , i. 1.