web

The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.

[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.

The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

He caught the ball in the web.

A latticed or woven structure.

The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.

A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.

Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.

Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.

Let me search the web for that.

No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.

To construct or form a web.

To cover with a web or network.

The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger[…]

In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]

To ensnare or entangle.

To provide with a web.

To weave.

Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]