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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEB (a word
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common to
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Teutonic
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languages, cf. Du.
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webbe,
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Dan. vaev, Ger. Gewebe, all from the Teutonic wabh—to weave)  , that which is
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woven (see
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WEAVING) . The word is thus applied to anything resembling a
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web of
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cloth, to the
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vexillum of the
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feather of a
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bird, to the membrane which connects the toes of many aquatic birds and some aquatic mammals; it is particularly used of the " cobweb," the
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net spun by the spider, the Old
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English name for which was dtor-coppe, i.e.
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poison-
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head (
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aloe, poison, and coppe, tuft or head) . In
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architecture the
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term " web " is sometimes given, in preference to "
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panel," to the
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stone
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shell of a vault resting on the ribs and taking its winding
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surface from the same; see VAULT .

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