Web

n. [A-S. webb, O. Sax. webbi, North Fries. web, O. Fries. woob, D. web, webbe, L. Ger. weve, O. H. Ger. weppi, woppe, giweppi, M. H. Ger. weppe, webbe, webe, N. H. Ger. webe, gewebe, Prov. Ger. webb, Icel. vefr, vaf, Sw. väf, Dan. väv. See WEAVE.]

1. A weaver. [Obs.]
2. That which is woven; texture; textile fabric; hence, locally, a piece of linen cloth.

Penelope, for her Ulysses’ sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive. Spenser. Not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile. Macaulay.

3. The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects as its prey; a cobweb. “The smallest spider’s web.” Shak.
4. An opaque film covering the cornea of the eye, formed by disease; suffusion. Shak.
5. The blade of a sword. [Obs.]

A sword whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stones, hilt gold. Fairfax. 6. A thin sheet of metal, as lead. [Obs.] And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead. Fairfax.

7. (Ship-building.) The thin partition on the inside of the rim and between the spokes of a sheave.
8. (Ornith.) The membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls.
9. (Engin.) A thin vertical plate of metal connecting an upper and lower part or table of a girder.

Pin and web, a disorder of the eye, consisting of a film or excrescence growing upon the ball of it, so as to destroy the sight. [Obs.] Nares.—Web of a colter, the thin, sharp part.