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xtile 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.

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.

catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A million webers.

The millionth part of one weber.