Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WEB, n. [Sax. web; Sw. väf. See Weave.]

1. Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers. – Spenser.
2. Locally, a piece of linen cloth. – England. Ireland.
3. A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion. – Shak.
4. Some part of a sword. Qu. net-work of the handle or hilt. – Shak. Fairfax.
5. In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave. – Cyc.
6. In ornithology, the membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls. Spider's web, a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins from its bowels, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food. Web of a coulter, is the thin sharp part.