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noun

Cobweb n.

The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

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."

That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. "The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age."

(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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Etymology of 'Cobweb'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cobweb" Quotes from Famous Books

... diction, your perspicuity which leaves no cobweb of misty doubt wherewith to drape my shivering moral deformity! To 'see ourselves as others see us' is as disappointing as the result of plunging one's hand into the 'grab-bag', but at least it brings the stimulating tingle of a new sensation. ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... dreamed of flight, this little voyager was coasting the clouds. I can follow him far across the meadow in the cobweb basket as his filmy balloon floats shimmering ...

— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp

... his country, a brilliant soldier and adventurer as well as a man of letters, is perhaps the first Greek on record who openly lost interest in the city. He thought less about cities and constitutions than about great men and nations, or generals and armies. To him it was idle to spin cobweb formations of ideal laws and communities. Society is right enough if you have a really fine man to lead it. It may be that his ideal was formed in childhood by stories of Pericles and the great age when Athens was 'in name a democracy ...

— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray

... he looked into the rose-pink room and saw Liane Delorme, in a negligee like a cobweb over a nightdress even more sheer, kneeling and clawing at her throat, round which a heavy silk handkerchief was slowly tightening; her face already purple with strangulation, her eyes bulging from their sockets, her ...

— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance

... of singing-birds, and there was a little old woman looking at her, with the funniest cap, and a withered face not bigger than you may see when you look at the baby through the big end of a spyglass: the cap was a morning-glory, and it was tied underneath the chin with bleached cobweb, and the streamers and bows were just like the colors you ...

— Stories of Childhood • Various

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