ENCURECK, in Natural History, a venomous insect found in Persia, and said to be a kind of tarantula. According to Olearius, as quoted by Mr Boyle, it neither stings nor bites; but lets fall its venom like a drop of water, which causes insufferable pain in the part for a time, and afterwards so profound a sleep, that, as report says, nothing can awake the patient except crushing one of the creatures on the part affected. It is nevertheless said, that the sheep eat these insects without damage.