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   Web , n. [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See Weave.] A weaver. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   Web, n. [OE. web, AS. webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG. weppi, G. gewebe, Icel. vefr, Sw. väf, Dan. væv. See Weave.]
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   That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
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   Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake,
   Devised a web her wooers to deceive.
   Spenser.
   
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   Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile.
   Bancroft.
   
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   A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
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   The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. “The smallest spider's web.” 
   Shak.
   
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   Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
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   The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold.
   Hawthorne.
   
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   Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
   W. Irving.
   
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   (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
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   A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
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   And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
   Fairfax.
   
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   (a) The blade of a sword. [Obs.]
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   The sword, whereof the web was steel,
   Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
   Fairfax.
   
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   (b) The blade of a saw.
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   (c) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
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   (d) The bit of a key.
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   (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. Specifically: --
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   (a) 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.
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   (b) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
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   (c) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
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   (d) The part of a blacksmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
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   (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
   Shak.
   
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   (Anat.) 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.
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   (Zool.) 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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   Pin and web (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; -- sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8. “He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay.” Gascoigne. -- Web member (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system. -- Web press, a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets. -- Web system (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.
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   web , n. The world-wide web; -- usually referred to as the web.
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   Web , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Webbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Webbing.] To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
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