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cobwebs

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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.
cobwebs [ˈkɒbˌwɛbz]
pl n
1. mustiness, confusion, or obscurity
2. Informal stickiness of the eyelids experienced upon first awakening


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Cobwebs were in the angles of the walls and depended from the ceiling like strips of rotting lace, making undulatory movements in the disturbed air.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
For what is the array of the strongest ropes, the tallest spars and the stoutest canvas against the mighty breath of the infinite, but thistle stalks, cobwebs and gossamer?
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
An epergne or centrepiece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckled-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.
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