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Webster 1913 Edition
Web
Web
,Noun.
[OE.
web
, AS. webb
; akin to D. web
, webbe
, OHG. weppi
, G. gewebe
, Icel. vefr
, Sw. väf
, Dan. væv
. See Weave
.] 1.
That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
Penelope, for her Ulysses’ sake,
Devised a
Devised a
web
her wooers to deceive. Spenser.
Not
web
might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile. Bancroft.
2.
A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
3.
The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
“The smallest spider's web.” Shak.
4.
Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their
web
of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold. Hawthorne.
Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the
web
of conjectures. W. Irving.
5.
(Carriages)
A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
6.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
And Christians slain roll up in
Specifically: -webs
of lead. Fairfax.
(a)
The blade of a sword.
[Obs.]
The sword, whereof the
Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
web
was steel,Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Fairfax.
(b)
The blade of a saw.
(c)
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
(d)
The bit of a key.
7.
(Mach. & Engin.)
A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
Specifically: –(a)
The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
(b)
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
(c)
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
(d)
The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
8.
(Med.)
Pterygium; – called also
webeye
. Shak.
9.
(Anat.)
The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
10.
(Zool.)
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See
Feather
. Pin and web
(Med.)
, two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; – sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See , 8, and , 8.
“He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay.” Pin
, Noun.
Web
, Noun.
Gascoigne.
– Web member
(Engin.)
, one of the braces in a web system.
– Web press
, a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets.
– Web system
(Engin.)
, the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.
Web
(wĕb)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Webbed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Webbing
.] To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Web
WEB
,Noun.
1.
Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers.2.
Locally, a piece of linen cloth.3.
A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion.4.
Some part of a sword. Qu. Net-work of the handle or hilt.5.
In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave.6.
In ornithology, the membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls.Spiders web, a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins from its bowels, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food.
Web of a coulter, is the thin sharp part.