Cobweb

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spider web \Spi"der web"\, or Spider's web \Spi"der's web"\ .
     (Zool.)
     The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders,
     particularly the web spun to entrap their prey; -- also
     called {cobweb}. See {Geometric spider}, {Triangle spider},
     under {Geometric}, and {Triangle}.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cobweb \Cob"web`\, n. [Cob a spider + web.]
     1. The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
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     2. A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant
        and unwary.
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              I can not but lament thy splendid wit
              Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. --Cowper.
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     3. That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and
        worthless; rubbish.
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              The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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     4. (Zool.) The European spotted flycatcher.
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     {Cobweb lawn}, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in
        pieces of fifteen yards. --Beck. Draper's Dict.
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              Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn.    --Beau. & Fl.
  
     {Cobweb micrometer}, a micrometer in which threads of cobweb
        are substituted for wires.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cobweb
       n 1: filaments from a cobweb [syn: {gossamer}]
       2: a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the
          orb web

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "cobweb":
     air, animal fiber, artificial fiber, bait, birdlime, bola, bubble,
     cambric tea, capillament, chaff, chip, cilium, cirrus, cork,
     denier, dishwater, down, dragnet, dust, entanglement, ether, fairy,
     feather, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, fishhook,
     flagellum, flue, fluff, fly, foam, froth, fuzz, gill net, gossamer,
     ground bait, gruel, hair, hank, hook, house of cards, jig, lariat,
     lasso, lime, lure, matchwood, meshes, milk and water, mote, net,
     noose, plug, pound net, purse seine, reed, rope of sand,
     sand castle, seine, skein, snare, sniggle, spinner, sponge,
     springe, spume, squid, strand, straw, suture, tendril, thistledown,
     thread, threadlet, toils, trawl, water, web, wobbler
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  COBWEB
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