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The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.

See Weasand. [Obs.]

Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.

Somewhat weazen; shriveled. [Colloq.] "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.

A weaver. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web- footed fowl.

Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Provided with a web.

One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster. [Obs.]

A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.

Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. Crabbe.

The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp. [Obs.]

See Web, n., 8.

Any web-footed bird.

A weaver; originally, a female weaver. [Obs.] Brathwait.

A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

us species of moths whose gregarious larvæ eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.

A pledge; a pawn. [Obs.] Gower. Piers Plowman. Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security]. Chaucer.

See Veddahs.