\Web\, n. [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See {Weave}.]
A weaver. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

\Web\, n. [OE. web, AS. webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG.
weppi, G. gewebe, Icel. vefr, Sw. v["a]f, Dan. v[ae]v. See
{Weave}.]
1. That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp.,
   something woven in a loom.

         Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her
         wooers to deceive.                    --Spenser.

         Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or
         penalty of exile.                     --Bancroft.

2. A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.

3. The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for
   catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. ``The smallest
   spider's web.'' --Shak.

4. Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.

         The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their
         web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color
         or gold.                              --Hawthorne.

         Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of
         commentators that it is difficult to extricate the
         truth from the web of conjectures.    --W. Irving.

5. (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the
   extension of the hood.

6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

         And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
                                               --Fairfax.
   Specifically:
   (a) The blade of a sword. [Obs.]

             The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel
             rich stone, hilt gold.            --Fairfax.
   (b) The blade of a saw.
   (c) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
   (d) The bit of a key.

7. (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or
   perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or
   other parts of an object. Specifically:
   (a) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the
       upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron
       girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
   (b) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of
       spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds
       of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
   (c) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
   (d) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and
       the foot.

8. (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also {webeye}. --Shak.

9. (Anat.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes,
   either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of
   their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.

10. (Zo["o]l.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of
    the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together
    by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and
    separate, as in downy feathers. See {Feather}.



{Pin and web} (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and
   pterygium; -- sometimes wrongly explained as one disease.
   See {Pin}, n., 8, and {Web}, n., 8. ``He never yet had
   pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay.'' --Gascoigne.

{Web member} (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system.

{Web press}, a printing press which takes paper from a roll
   instead of being fed with sheets.

{Web system} (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the
   flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.

\Web\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Webbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Webbing}.]
To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to
envelop; to entangle.