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To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

pearance; counterfeit semblance or show. That eye which glances through all disguises. D. Webster.

st of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

mation; as, a man of distinction. Your country's own means of distinction and defense. D. Webster.

ion of evil designs. Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles. D. Webster.

he United States. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion. D. Webster.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).

leights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.

or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

cles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

rrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zoöl.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong,…

didst thou buy this buff let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. J. Webster.

Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.

really existing; existent. Is it true, that thou art but a a name, And no essential thing Webster (1623).

hak. I will deliver you, in ready coin, The full and dear'st esteem of what you crave. J. Webster.

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak. He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged. J. Webster.