cobwebn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒbwɛb/, U.S.

/ˈkɑbˌwɛb/

Forms: Middle English–1500s coppeweb, ( -bes), Middle English–1600s copweb, Middle English–1500s copwebbe, (also Middle English copweft); 1500s cobbewebbe, 1500s–1600s cobwebbe, 1500s– cobweb.

Etymology: Middle English coppeweb , < coppe spider (see cop n.³) + web n. Compare Westphal. cobbenwebbe (Woeste 137 b), and cob n.⁴

a. The web or fine network spun by a spider for the capture of its prey; also, the substance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web

webOE

netOE

cobweb1323

lop-webc1400

wevet1499

attercop1530

spider-web1535

caul1548

mouseweb1556

spider coba1571

twail1608

spider's cloth1638

cockweba1642

texturea1774

worm-web1822

1323 in H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis (1860) III. 415 Fila de coppe~webbes.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 343 Lanfranc destroyede þe castes of þe myȝti men as who destroyeþ cop~web [v.r. attercrop weftes, copweft, attercops nestes].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xi. 1140 Copweb þat is white and clene..haþ vertu to constreigne, ioyne, and to restreigne. And þerfore þey stauncheþ blood.

?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Avij^v With cobwebbes, and dust.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Mviij Spiders make their own copwebbes with out any other helpe.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diii/2 A Copwebbe, tela, aranea.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 41 Is..the house trim'd, rushes strew'd, cobwebs swept?

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 26 Make six middling Pills, of Cobwebs.

1842 T. Hood Turtles in New Monthly Mag. June 273 A cellar damp, With venerable cobwebs fringed around.

1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 18 A limp band softer than silk or cobweb.

b. A single thread spun by a spider. (Used in optical instruments.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > instrument for looking through > parts of

sight-hole1559

aperture1665

diaphragm1665

reticule1728

reticle1731

wire1737

web1746

screena1764

eye cap1822

spider-line1829

cobweb1837

slit1863

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > cobweb

web1746

spider-line1829

cobweb1837

cross-wire1866

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 50 There usually is in cobweb micrometers..a set of teeth..the said teeth commencing from the immoveable cobweb, or zero of the scale.

1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks vii. 53 The cobweb is aligned on one of the faces of the crystal.

†2. Threads similar to the spider's, produced by other insects, etc. (cf. Latin arānea and arāneum.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > spinning organ > threads

cobweb1392

1392 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xvii. clxxvii. 719 There is a nother euyll that kepers of vynes calle Araneum, for of euyll blastes of wynde and corrupte reyne cometh and bredyth as it were copwebbes.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 103^v Though Homer call the Wyllowe a fruitelesse tree, because his fruite turneth into Cobwebs before they be ripe.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §728 Catterpillers have Copwebs about them which is a Signe of a Slimy Driness.

3. figurative.

a. Anything of flimsy, frail, or unsubstantial texture; esp. fanciful fine-spun reasoning.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial

triflec1290

vainc1330

winda1382

vapour1382

gossamer?a1400

visevase1481

good morrow1542

cobweb1579

superficial1579

puff1583

bladder1589

blathery1591

froth1594

bag of winda1599

moth1600

nominala1625

tumour1630

windlestraw1637

vacuity1648

balloon1656

blank1678

breath bubble1835

nominality1842

fluff1906

cotton candy1931

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > instance of

curiosityc1380

syllogism1387

webc1400

cobweb1579

refinement1692

refinery1746

pilpul1966

1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 637 That you may see what soundnesse there is in his doctrine, thus he weaueth his copwebbe.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F1 Copwebs of learning, admirable for the finesse of thread and worke, but of no substance or profite.

1656 A. Cowley Life & Fame in Pindaric Odes i In all the Cobwebs of the Schoolmens trade We no such nice Distinction woven see, As 'tis To be, or Not to Be.

1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st lviii. 30 The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxxii. 191 The questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun.

b. Any musty accumulation, accretion, or obstruction, which ought to be swept away, like dusty cobwebs in a room. to have a cobweb in the throat: to feel thirsty, or have a desire to drink.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty accretion

cobweba1586

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > an accumulation or obstruction

cobweba1586

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > be thirsty [verb (intransitive)]

thirstc950

dry1362

sitiate1599

to have a cobweb in the throat1844

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F4^v Being so euill apparrelled in the dust and cobwebbes of that vnciuil age.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 28 To sweep away these cobwebs of superstition.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 54 As if..he could not take Religion without taking too all the cobwebs and trumpery that have clung about it in some dirty corner of the nursery.

1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ii. 66 He felt a cobweb in his throat.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 41 Let us brush the cobwebs from our eyes.

1862 Athenæum 27 Sept. 397 An unfailing specific for clearing away cobwebs from the brain.

c. A subtly woven snare, entangling mesh.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun]

neteOE

angleOE

grinc1000

trapc1175

caltropa1300

lacec1330

girnc1375

espyc1380

webc1400

hook1430

settingc1430

lure1463

stall?a1500

stalea1529

toil1548

intrap1550

hose-net1554

gudgeon1577

mousetrap1577

trapfall1596

ensnarementa1617

decoy1655

cobweba1657

trepan1665

snap1844

deadfall1860

Judas1907

tanglefoot1908

catch-221963

trip-wire1971

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 5 'Tis All a thin Cob web of Policye, whose full extent Only the brooding Spider knowes.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 103. ⁋9 No snare more dangerous..than the cobwebs of petty inquisitiveness.

1860 C. Kingsley Misc. (ed. 2) I. 75 Break through the law-cobwebs.

d. cobweb law n. (see quot. 1557).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > [noun] > a law > other general types of law

judicialc1400

proper law1609

antinomy1644

cobweb law1649

post-law1663

overlaw1883

inn law1930

loi-cadre1953

1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) ii. vii. f. 72 Lawes of men may be lykened to cobwebbes, which doe tye and holde the little flyes fast, but the great flyes breaketh furth and escape.]

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xviii. 166 Our Laws els were but cobweb Laws.

1762 C. Churchill Ghost ii. 51 This same decency..like the cobweb laws, is still Broke through by great ones when they will.

4. More fully, cobweb bird, a local name of the Spotted Flycatcher ( Muscicapa grisola).‘From its use of spiders' webs in the construction of its nest’ (Swainson).

ΚΠ

1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 426 This..is here well-known, and vulgarly called the Copweb.

1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds Index Cobweb, the Spotted Fly-catcher.

1888 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 380 The site of the present nest and one of its constituents gives two provincial names to the flycatcher—beam-bird and cobweb-bird.

Compounds

C1. attributive or quasi-adj. (chiefly figurative: see 3).

ΚΠ

1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 55 Their cobweb-obiections.

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. L2^v When I Trust to your cobweb-bosomes any other [treason] Let me there die a Flie; and feast you, Spider.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. x. 11 Divinity..in comparison of whom all other knowledge is but cobwebb learning.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 273 Thomas Aquinas's cobweb subtleties.

1797 College: a Satire 7 Consign the pile sublime To cobweb-honours and the dust of time.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. vii. 267 The cobweb visions of those dreaming varlets the poets.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. ii. 164 These were but cobweb impediments which, indeed, had long been brushed away.

C2. Applied adjectivally to a light, finely-woven or gauze-like material. See also cobweb lawn n.

ΚΠ

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 7 What idle gyddy-headed braines are under those large and fine cob-web-veiles.

c1755 Mrs. Delany in Harper's Mag. (1884) July 260/1 She had a cob~web laced handkerchief.

1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 99 Making sad inroads into ladies' cobweb muslins.

1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 24 The cobweb handkerchief lies before me.

C3.

a. General attributive.

(a)

cobweb-hanging n.

ΚΠ

c1646 Roxburghe Ballads VI. 323 We see White-Hall with cobweb-hangings on the wall.

cobweb-pill n.

ΚΠ

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 355 I immediately gave him a cobweb pill, for..cobweb pills were among the hospital formulæ.

cobweb-weaving n.

ΚΠ

1807 Salmagundi 14 Aug. 265 Mustapha..had as clear a head for cobweb weaving, as ever dignified the shoulders of a projector.

(b)

cobweb-headed adj.

ΚΠ

1805 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled ii. 25 Encyclopedists,..Steely nerv'd, and cobweb-headed.

cobweb-like adj.

ΚΠ

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 93 Paper-like walls, Cobweb-like windowes.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 701 With a cobweb-like wool interwoven.

cobweb micrometer n. a micrometer with cobweb-threads instead of wires.

ΚΠ

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 50 I now have recourse again to the cobweb micrometer and a deep object-glass.

cobweb morning n. dialect a misty morning.

ΚΠ

1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 61 Cobweb-morning, a misty morning. Norfolk.

cobweb weather n.

ΚΠ

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Copweb-weather, misty weather.

c. Economics. Used attributively, as in cobweb theorem, etc., with reference to a proposition that changes in the quantity and hence the price of perishable goods in one season affect the quantity and price in subsequent seasons, according to a converging or diverging spiral.

ΚΠ

1934 N. Kaldor in Rev. Econ. Stud. I. 134 Where the adjustments are completely discontinuous, stability (or ‘definiteness’) of equilibrium will depend on the relative elasticities of demand and supply; according to what may be called ‘the cobweb theorem’ of Professor Henry Schultz and Professor U. Ricci.

1953 Sloan & Zurcher Dict. Econ. (ed. 3) 56 Cobweb chart, a graphic representation of the conditions that may exist in a competitive market when the sale of a perishable good, requiring a period of time to produce, is confined to a short seasonal demand, but enjoys a fairly constant demand from year to year during that season.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 1024/3 Characteristic of industries in which relatively large time lapses occur between the decision to produce and the finished product, the cobweb cycle is most commonly found in agricultural markets.

1976 Industr. & Labor Rel. Rev. XXIX. 248/1 Using a cobweb model to explain the supply of new entrants to engineering this study showed that the supply is highly responsive to economic conditions.

1983 G. Bannock et al. Penguin Dict. Econ. (ed. 3) 75 The importance of the cobweb theorem is as one of the earliest and easiest examples of dynamic analysis.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cobweb
释义	cobwebn. Brit. /ˈkɒbwɛb/, U.S. /ˈkɑbˌwɛb/ Forms: Middle English–1500s coppeweb, ( -bes), Middle English–1600s copweb, Middle English–1500s copwebbe, (also Middle English copweft); 1500s cobbewebbe, 1500s–1600s cobwebbe, 1500s– cobweb. Etymology: Middle English coppeweb , < coppe spider (see cop n.³) + web n. Compare Westphal. cobbenwebbe (Woeste 137 b), and cob n.⁴ 1. a. The web or fine network spun by a spider for the capture of its prey; also, the substance. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web webOE netOE cobweb1323 lop-webc1400 wevet1499 attercop1530 spider-web1535 caul1548 mouseweb1556 spider coba1571 twail1608 spider's cloth1638 cockweba1642 texturea1774 worm-web1822 1323 in H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis (1860) III. 415 Fila de coppe~webbes. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 343 Lanfranc destroyede þe castes of þe myȝti men as who destroyeþ cop~web [v.r. attercrop weftes, copweft, attercops nestes]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xi. 1140 Copweb þat is white and clene..haþ vertu to constreigne, ioyne, and to restreigne. And þerfore þey stauncheþ blood. ?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Avij^v With cobwebbes, and dust. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Mviij Spiders make their own copwebbes with out any other helpe. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diii/2 A Copwebbe, tela, aranea. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 41 Is..the house trim'd, rushes strew'd, cobwebs swept? View more context for this quotation 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 26 Make six middling Pills, of Cobwebs. 1842 T. Hood Turtles in New Monthly Mag. June 273 A cellar damp, With venerable cobwebs fringed around. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 18 A limp band softer than silk or cobweb. b. A single thread spun by a spider. (Used in optical instruments.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > instrument for looking through > parts of sight-hole1559 aperture1665 diaphragm1665 reticule1728 reticle1731 wire1737 web1746 screena1764 eye cap1822 spider-line1829 cobweb1837 slit1863 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > cobweb web1746 spider-line1829 cobweb1837 cross-wire1866 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 50 There usually is in cobweb micrometers..a set of teeth..the said teeth commencing from the immoveable cobweb, or zero of the scale. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks vii. 53 The cobweb is aligned on one of the faces of the crystal. †2. Threads similar to the spider's, produced by other insects, etc. (cf. Latin arānea and arāneum.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > spinning organ > threads cobweb1392 1392 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xvii. clxxvii. 719 There is a nother euyll that kepers of vynes calle Araneum, for of euyll blastes of wynde and corrupte reyne cometh and bredyth as it were copwebbes. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 103^v Though Homer call the Wyllowe a fruitelesse tree, because his fruite turneth into Cobwebs before they be ripe. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §728 Catterpillers have Copwebs about them which is a Signe of a Slimy Driness. 3. figurative. a. Anything of flimsy, frail, or unsubstantial texture; esp. fanciful fine-spun reasoning. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial triflec1290 vainc1330 winda1382 vapour1382 gossamer?a1400 visevase1481 good morrow1542 cobweb1579 superficial1579 puff1583 bladder1589 blathery1591 froth1594 bag of winda1599 moth1600 nominala1625 tumour1630 windlestraw1637 vacuity1648 balloon1656 blank1678 breath bubble1835 nominality1842 fluff1906 cotton candy1931 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > instance of curiosityc1380 syllogism1387 webc1400 cobweb1579 refinement1692 refinery1746 pilpul1966 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 637 That you may see what soundnesse there is in his doctrine, thus he weaueth his copwebbe. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F1 Copwebs of learning, admirable for the finesse of thread and worke, but of no substance or profite. View more context for this quotation 1656 A. Cowley Life & Fame in Pindaric Odes i In all the Cobwebs of the Schoolmens trade We no such nice Distinction woven see, As 'tis To be, or Not to Be. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st lviii. 30 The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxxii. 191 The questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. View more context for this quotation b. Any musty accumulation, accretion, or obstruction, which ought to be swept away, like dusty cobwebs in a room. to have a cobweb in the throat: to feel thirsty, or have a desire to drink. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty accretion cobweba1586 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > an accumulation or obstruction cobweba1586 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > be thirsty [verb (intransitive)] thirstc950 dry1362 sitiate1599 to have a cobweb in the throat1844 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F4^v Being so euill apparrelled in the dust and cobwebbes of that vnciuil age. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 28 To sweep away these cobwebs of superstition. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 54 As if..he could not take Religion without taking too all the cobwebs and trumpery that have clung about it in some dirty corner of the nursery. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ii. 66 He felt a cobweb in his throat. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 41 Let us brush the cobwebs from our eyes. 1862 Athenæum 27 Sept. 397 An unfailing specific for clearing away cobwebs from the brain. c. A subtly woven snare, entangling mesh. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] neteOE angleOE grinc1000 trapc1175 caltropa1300 lacec1330 girnc1375 espyc1380 webc1400 hook1430 settingc1430 lure1463 stall?a1500 stalea1529 toil1548 intrap1550 hose-net1554 gudgeon1577 mousetrap1577 trapfall1596 ensnarementa1617 decoy1655 cobweba1657 trepan1665 snap1844 deadfall1860 Judas1907 tanglefoot1908 catch-221963 trip-wire1971 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 5 'Tis All a thin Cob web of Policye, whose full extent Only the brooding Spider knowes. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 103. ⁋9 No snare more dangerous..than the cobwebs of petty inquisitiveness. 1860 C. Kingsley Misc. (ed. 2) I. 75 Break through the law-cobwebs. d. cobweb law n. (see quot. 1557). ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > a law > other general types of law judicialc1400 proper law1609 antinomy1644 cobweb law1649 post-law1663 overlaw1883 inn law1930 loi-cadre1953 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) ii. vii. f. 72 Lawes of men may be lykened to cobwebbes, which doe tye and holde the little flyes fast, but the great flyes breaketh furth and escape.] 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xviii. 166 Our Laws els were but cobweb Laws. 1762 C. Churchill Ghost ii. 51 This same decency..like the cobweb laws, is still Broke through by great ones when they will. 4. More fully, cobweb bird, a local name of the Spotted Flycatcher ( Muscicapa grisola).‘From its use of spiders' webs in the construction of its nest’ (Swainson). ΚΠ 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 426 This..is here well-known, and vulgarly called the Copweb. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds Index Cobweb, the Spotted Fly-catcher. 1888 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 380 The site of the present nest and one of its constituents gives two provincial names to the flycatcher—beam-bird and cobweb-bird. Compounds C1. attributive or quasi-adj. (chiefly figurative: see 3). ΚΠ 1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 55 Their cobweb-obiections. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. L2^v When I Trust to your cobweb-bosomes any other [treason] Let me there die a Flie; and feast you, Spider. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. x. 11 Divinity..in comparison of whom all other knowledge is but cobwebb learning. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 273 Thomas Aquinas's cobweb subtleties. 1797 College: a Satire 7 Consign the pile sublime To cobweb-honours and the dust of time. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. vii. 267 The cobweb visions of those dreaming varlets the poets. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. ii. 164 These were but cobweb impediments which, indeed, had long been brushed away. C2. Applied adjectivally to a light, finely-woven or gauze-like material. See also cobweb lawn n. ΚΠ 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 7 What idle gyddy-headed braines are under those large and fine cob-web-veiles. c1755 Mrs. Delany in Harper's Mag. (1884) July 260/1 She had a cob~web laced handkerchief. 1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 99 Making sad inroads into ladies' cobweb muslins. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 24 The cobweb handkerchief lies before me. C3. a. General attributive. (a) cobweb-hanging n. ΚΠ c1646 Roxburghe Ballads VI. 323 We see White-Hall with cobweb-hangings on the wall. cobweb-pill n. ΚΠ 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 355 I immediately gave him a cobweb pill, for..cobweb pills were among the hospital formulæ. cobweb-weaving n. ΚΠ 1807 Salmagundi 14 Aug. 265 Mustapha..had as clear a head for cobweb weaving, as ever dignified the shoulders of a projector. (b) cobweb-headed adj. ΚΠ 1805 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled ii. 25 Encyclopedists,..Steely nerv'd, and cobweb-headed. cobweb-like adj. ΚΠ 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 93 Paper-like walls, Cobweb-like windowes. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 701 With a cobweb-like wool interwoven. b. cobweb micrometer n. a micrometer with cobweb-threads instead of wires. ΚΠ 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 50 I now have recourse again to the cobweb micrometer and a deep object-glass. cobweb morning n. dialect a misty morning. ΚΠ 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 61 Cobweb-morning, a misty morning. Norfolk. cobweb weather n. ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Copweb-weather, misty weather. c. Economics. Used attributively, as in cobweb theorem, etc., with reference to a proposition that changes in the quantity and hence the price of perishable goods in one season affect the quantity and price in subsequent seasons, according to a converging or diverging spiral. ΚΠ 1934 N. Kaldor in Rev. Econ. Stud. I. 134 Where the adjustments are completely discontinuous, stability (or ‘definiteness’) of equilibrium will depend on the relative elasticities of demand and supply; according to what may be called ‘the cobweb theorem’ of Professor Henry Schultz and Professor U. Ricci. 1953 Sloan & Zurcher Dict. Econ. (ed. 3) 56 Cobweb chart, a graphic representation of the conditions that may exist in a competitive market when the sale of a perishable good, requiring a period of time to produce, is confined to a short seasonal demand, but enjoys a fairly constant demand from year to year during that season. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 1024/3 Characteristic of industries in which relatively large time lapses occur between the decision to produce and the finished product, the cobweb cycle is most commonly found in agricultural markets. 1976 Industr. & Labor Rel. Rev. XXIX. 248/1 Using a cobweb model to explain the supply of new entrants to engineering this study showed that the supply is highly responsive to economic conditions. 1983 G. Bannock et al. Penguin Dict. Econ. (ed. 3) 75 The importance of the cobweb theorem is as one of the earliest and easiest examples of dynamic analysis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cobwebv. Brit. /ˈkɒbwɛb/, U.S. /ˈkɑbˌwɛb/ Etymology: < cobweb n. transitive. To cover or hang with cobwebs. Chiefly in past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with specific other things clodc1420 pavea1425 foamc1540 overstain1559 thatch1589 sinew1592 to ice over1602 curd1654 overfleece1717 fleece1730 stucco1774 oversmoke1855 bepaper1861 beboulder1862 overflower1876 sack1880 overglass1883 to board over1885 pad1885 lather1917 cobweb1928 1928 P. B. Ballard Changing School xiii. 185 The lines of association with which their minds are cobwebed. 1960 S. Kauffmann If it be Love i. 9 Shreds of intense guttural intrigue still seemed to cobweb the corners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1323v.1928
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