WEB
Web, n. Etym: [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See Weave.]
Defn: A weaver. [Obs.] Chaucer.
WEB
Web, n. Etym: [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 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)
Defn: 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 webs of lead. Fairfax. Specifically: - (a) The blade of a sword. [Obs.] The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold. Fairfax.