[kob-web] 
noun, verb, -webbed, -web⋅bing.| 1. | a web spun by a spider to entrap its prey. |
| 2. | a single thread spun by a spider. |
| 3. | something resembling a cobweb; anything finespun, flimsy, or insubstantial. |
| 4. | a network of plot or intrigue; an insidious snare. |
| 5. | cobwebs, confusion, indistinctness, or lack of order: I'm so tired my head is full of cobwebs. |
| 6. | to cover with or as with cobwebs: Spiders cobwebbed the cellar. |
| 7. | to confuse or muddle: Drunkenness cobwebbed his mind. |
| cob·web (kŏb'wěb') n.
To cover with or as if with cobwebs. [Middle English coppeweb : coppe, spider (short for attercoppe, from Old English āttercoppe : ātor, poison + copp, head) + web, web; see web.] cob'web'by adj. |