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Cobweb   /kˈɑbwˌɛb/   Listen
noun
Cobweb  n.  
1.
The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
2.
A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. "I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools."
3.
That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. "The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age."
4.
(Zool.) The European spotted flycatcher.
Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. "Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn."
Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobweb are substituted for wires.






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"Cobweb" Quotes from Famous Books



... Women Middleton plays on the word:— "Fab. When she was invited to an early wedding, She'd dress her head o'ernight, sponge up herself, And give her neck three lathers. Gaar. Ne'er a halter.") Laugh and lye downe Launcepresado Law, the spider's cobweb Legerity Letters of mart Leveret Limbo Line of life Linstock Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne's tract The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes.) Loves Changelings Changed, MS. play founded on Sidney's Arcadia ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen

... the Duchessa lightly. "A rather pretty soap-bubble burst and turned into an unpleasant cobweb, that's all. So—well, I've just been brushing my mind clear of both the cobweb and the memory of ...
— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore

... The ancient firm of Smith, Brown, Jones, Robinson, and Co., which had been for some years past expanding from a solid golden organism into a cobweb-tissue and huge balloon of threadbare paper, had at last worn through and collapsed, dropping its car and human contents miserably into the Thames mud. Why detail the pitiable post-mortem examination resulting? Lancelot sickened over it for many a long day; not, ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley

... back to him, 'I'll giye up the succession;' says I, 'and what is more, I'll grant that you have been called by the Lord, and that I have not; but the Lord that called you,' says I, 'was Lord Foxhunter.' Man, you'd tie his Lordship wid a cobweb, he ...
— The Poor Scholar - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... I'm entirely reconciled to staying here," returned Kit. "Poppycheek, you are a wonderful dancer! You're like a butterfly skimming over a cobweb!" ...
— Patty's Suitors • Carolyn Wells


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