web

WEB, noun [See Weave.] 1. Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers. 2. Locally, a piece of linen cloth. 3. A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion. 4. Some part of a sword. Qu. Net-work of the handle or hilt. 5. In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave. 6. In ornithology, the membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls. Spiders web a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins from its bowels, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food. WEB of a coulter, is the thin sharp part.