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ˈcobwebbed, ppl. a. [f. cobweb n. or v.] 1. Covered or hung with cobwebs. Also fig.
1649Lovelace Poems (1864) 219 A cobwebb'd cot. a1844Hood Turtles vi, That cobwebb'd cellar, damp and dim. 1870Echo 15 Dec., The doors of that hot little theatre..are closed and cobwebbed. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 333 Cobwebbed o'er amid the dust it lay. 1905Nature 2 Nov. 12/1 The somewhat cobwebbed state of the higher education of this country. 1928Blunden Retreat 33 With whom some cobwebbed boyish vow Once ended ‘never, never part’! 2. Bot. Covered with a thick interwoven pubescence; arachnoid.
1828Webster cites Martyn. 1866Treas. Bot., Cobwebbed, covered with loose, white, entangled, thin hairs, resembling the web of a spider. |