ˈcobwebbed, ppl. a.
[f. cobweb n. or v.]
1. Covered or hung with cobwebs. Also fig.
| 1649 Lovelace Poems (1864) 219 A cobwebb'd cot. 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. 1905 Nature 2 Nov. 12/1 The somewhat cobwebbed state of the higher education of this country. 1928 Blunden Retreat 33 With whom some cobwebbed boyish vow Once ended ‘never, never part’! |
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. |