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cobwebbed

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cob·web  (kbwb)
n.
1.
a. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey.
b. A single thread spun by a spider.
2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness.
3. An intricate plot; a snare: caught in a cobweb of espionage and intrigue.
4. cobwebs Confusion; disorder: cobwebs on the brain.
tr.v. cob·webbed, cob·web·bing, cob·webs
To cover with or as if with cobwebs.
[Middle English coppeweb : coppe, spider (short for attercoppe, from Old English ttercoppe : tor, poison + copp, head) + web, web; see web.]
cobwebby adj.
Translations
cobwebbed [ˈkɒbwebd] ADJ → cubierto de telarañas, lleno de telarañas
cobwebbed [ˈkɒbwɛbd] adj → couvert(e) de toiles d'araignée
cobwebbed
adj → voller Spinnweben


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It was before him, served with almost incredible despatch - a small cobwebbed bottle and a glass of quaint shape, on which were beautifully emblazoned a coronet and fleur-de-lis.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
With this thought in her mind, she unbolted a door, cobwebbed and long disused, but which had served as a former medium of communication between her own part of the house and the gable where the wandering daguerreotypist had now established his temporary home.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Out of a cobwebbed bottle, containing liquor that a royal Governor might have smacked his lips over, they quaffed healths to the King, and babbled treason to the Republic, feeling as if the protecting shadow of the throne were still flung around them.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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