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Cobweb lawn

Cobweb \Cob"web`\, n. [Cob a spider + web.]

  1. The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

  2. A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

    I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
    --Cowper.

  3. That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.

    The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) The European spotted flycatcher.

    Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards.
    --Beck. Draper's Dict.

    Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobweb are substituted for wires.

Usage examples of "cobweb lawn".

It was a pageant of colour, in the midst of which the woman on trial, in her careful toilette, consisting of a black stammel gown, a cypress chaperon or black crepe hood in the French fashion, relieved by touches of white in the cuffs and ruff of cobweb lawn, struck a funereal note.