ppl. a. [f. COBWEB sb. or v.]
1. Covered or hung with cobwebs.
1649. Lovelace, Poems (1864), 219.
| Who loves the golden mean, doth safely want | |
| A cobwebb’d cot and wrongs entail’d upon’t. |
a. 1844. Hood, Turtles, vi. That cobwebb’d cellar, damp and dim.
1870. Echo, 15 Dec. The doors of that hot little theatre … are closed and cobwebbed.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 333. Cobwebbed o’er amid the dust it lay.
2. Bot. Covered with a thick interwoven pubescence; arachnoid.
1828. Webster cites Martyn.
1866. Treas. Bot., Cobwebbed, covered with loose, white, entangled, thin hairs, resembling the web of a spider.
