Crossword clues for cobwebby
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cobwebby \Cob"web`by\,
Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobwe
Wiktionary
1 Having many cobwebs. 2 Resembling a cobwe
3 (cx figurative English) Old or dated.
WordNet
adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous]
Usage examples of "cobwebby".
There is more of lightness, and of a cobwebby dusty humour in Hepzibah Pyncheon, the decayed lady shopkeeper, than Hawthorne commonly cares to display.
A side door opened onto a spiral staircase, cobwebby steps of nearly translucent aerogel ascending and descending into a dim blue mist in each direction.
Poor Shicky, trying to balance himself in flight without any legs, flapping around like a barn swallow chasing bugs as he scoops the cobwebby scraps out of Gateway’.
Poor Shicky, trying to balance himself in flight without any legs, flapping around like a barn swallow chasing bugs as he scoops the cobwebby scraps out of Gateway's air?
Town and city councils everywhere were shaken to find their cosy cabals invaded and the harsh light of popular enquiry being directed into some very cobwebby corners.
When she worked, her hair was covered by a black, cobwebby net, which darkened her curls to an off-shade of dried blood.
Cellars in houses like this were always dark and creepy, with rumbly oil burners and cobwebby rafters.
Like a sleepwalker, he lurched over to his cobwebby work bench and jerked the dust-covered tarpaulin off what Tommy had assumed to be miscellaneous junk.