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Web

n.
  1. A weaver. [Obs.]

Web

n.
  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.
    Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile.
  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.
  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.
    Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
  5. A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood. (Carriages)
  6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
    And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
  7. The blade of a sword. [Obs.]
    The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
  8. The blade of a saw.
  9. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
  10. The bit of a key.
  11. A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. (Mach. & Engin.)
  12. 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.
  13. A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
  14. The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
  15. The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
  16. Pterygium; -- called also webeye. (Med.)
  17. 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. (Anat.)
  18. 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. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds
Pin and web
two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; -- sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8.
Web member
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
the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.

web

n.
  1. The world-wide web; -- usually referred to as the web.

Web

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Webbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Webbing

  1. To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.