cobweb
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cobweb
n 1: a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web
of a spider
2: filaments from a web that was spun by a spider [syn:
{cobweb}, {gossamer}]
3: a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the
orb web
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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