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2. A snare of insidious meshes designed
to catch the ignorant and unwary.

I can not but lament thy splendid wit

Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.

Cowper.

3. That which is thin and unsubstantial,
or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.

The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil
age.

Sir P. Sidney.

4. (Zoöl.) The European
spotted flycatcher.

Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in
1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's
Dict.

Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn.

Beau. & Fl.

-- Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in
which threads of cobweb are substituted for wires.

Cob"webbed` (?), a. Abounding
in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage."
Young.

Cob"web`by (?), a. Abounding
in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

Cob"work` (?), a. Built of
logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together
at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often
surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a
cobwork dock or breakwater.


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