Web

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The bit of a key.

II. Web ·noun The blade of a saw.

III. Web ·noun The blade of a sword.

IV. Web ·noun A Weaver.

V. Web ·noun Pterygium;

— called also webeye.

VI. Web ·noun The thin, sharp part of a colter.

VII. Web ·noun A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.

VIII. Web ·noun Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.

IX. Web ·noun A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

X. Web ·noun The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.

XI. Web ·noun A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.

XII. Web ·noun The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.

XIII. Web ·noun That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; ·esp., something woven in a loom.

XIV. Web ·noun The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.

XV. Web ·vt To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to Envelop; to Entangle.

XVI. Web ·noun A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, ·etc.

XVII. Web ·noun A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an Object.

XVIII. Web ·noun 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.

XIX. Web ·noun 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.

XX. Web ·noun 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.

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