a. [f. WEB sb. + -Y.]

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  1.  Consisting of web; resembling web or a web.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 289. The Cæruleous [Spider] causeth a paine of heart, deep sleep and vomiting of a webby matter.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 596. They delight to … entangle the feeble in their webby filaments.

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1854.  Lady Lytton, Behind the Scenes, I. I. iv. 124. His gloves were … of some webby elastic texture.

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1904.  ‘E. Nesbit,’ Phœnix & Carpet, x. 185. The big darn in the middle of the carpet was all open and webby like a fishing-net.

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  2.  Of the digits: Furnished with a web, palmated. Also fig. of a person.

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1807.  Crabbe, Par. Reg., I. 381. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move.

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1861.  G. H. K[ingsley], in F. Galton, Vacation Tourists, iv. 165. I am of so fishy and webby a nature, that I take to the water at once.

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1895.  Westm. Gaz., 14 Sept., 2/1. If I have not pointed ears or webby fingers, [etc.].

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