Word Finder - cobweb

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A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.

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One of its filaments; gossamer

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Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.

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An intricate plot to catch the unwary

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A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited

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The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.

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(usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories

This expriest, this disillusioned Jacobin and skilful spinner of cobweb constitutions, enjoyed for a time the chief reputation in France.

Cobweb Houseleek (Sempervivum Arachnoideum) - One of the most singular of alpine plants, with tiny rosettes of fleshy leaves covered at the top with a thick white down, which intertwines itself all over the leaves like a spiders web.

According to Simon Jenkins in the Times, Gordon Brown and I sit at the heart of a " vast cobweb " of targets.

Bare boughs from the trees weave a cobweb of branches against the pale wintry sky.

It looks like the beginning of a spider's cobweb, hence the name of this approach.

Ay, every leaf and twig and stone and cobweb sparkles now at mid-afternoon as when covered with dew in a spring morning.

All this he brushed aside as tho it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him.

Thanks to Cobweb Solutions, daily email downtime is a problem of the past.

Figure 1 shows the typical cobweb growth of a mold mycelium from the edge to the center of a glass surface.

I owned a tarantula spider until it went to the big cobweb in the sky a few years ago.

He also took pleasure in smoking a pipe of tobacco; or, when he had a mind to divert himself somewhat longer, he looked for some spiders and made them fight together, or he threw some flies into the cobweb, and was so well pleased with the result of that battle that he would sometimes break into laughter" (Colerus).

Besides Stephen Petelei (Jetti, a name - "Henrietta " - Felhok, " Clouds ") and Zoltan Ambrus (Pokhdlo Kisasszony, " Miss Cobweb "; Gyanu, " Suspicion") must be mentioned especially Francis Herczeg, who has published a number of very interesting studies of Hungarian social life (Simon Zsuzsa, " Susanna Simon "; Fenn es lenn, " Above and Below "; Egy ledny tortenete, " The History of a Girl "; Idegenete kozott, " Amongst Strangers "); Alexander Brody, who brings a delicate yet resolute analysis to unfold the mysterious and fascinating inner life of persons suffering from overwrought nerves or overstrung mind (A kitlelkil asszony, " The Double-Souled Lady "; Don Quixote kisasszony, " Miss Don Quixote "; Faust orvos, " Faust the Physician "; Tiinder Ilona, Rejtelmek, "Mysteries"; Az eziest kecske, " The Silver Goat "); and Edward Kabos, whose sombre and powerful genius has already produced works, not popular by any means, but full of great promise.