a. [f. as prec. + -Y.]

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  1.  Full of, or covered with, cobwebs.

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1859.  Times, 3 Dec., 6/4. Sounder views upon this Chinese question than have yet been able to penetrate the cobwebby purlieus of the Admiralty.

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1883.  F. M. Peard, Contrad., II. 267. It was one of those dewy cobwebby mornings which September brings.

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  b.  Bot. Cf. COBWEBBED 2.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 194. Leaves … white or cobwebby beneath.

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  2.  Of the nature of cobwebs; resembling cobwebs.

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1743.  Lond. & Country Brewer, III. (ed. 2), 168. Sometimes … it will appear like Cobwebs, every time it is cut…. This cobwebby, ropy Condition of the Bread.

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1881.  Mrs. Riddell, Palace Gardens, xxvii. 265. A pretty delicate cobwebby piece of lace.

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1884.  F. J. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 172. A cobwebby film collects on the bright steel work.

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