web winged (webwingd)

Winged by large webs stretched between elongated digits of the fore limbs, as bats; chiropterous. See cuts under bat2 and Furia. 6866 wager, = Sw. vädja, appeal, = Dan. vedde, wager, = Goth. ga - wadjon, pledge, betroth; from the noun. Cf. wage, gagel, v.] I. trans. 11. Το pledge; hence, to wager. Yee be welcome, that dare I wele wedde . My lorde has sente for to seke hym. York Plays , p. 261. The yonge man, hauinge his hart all redy wedded to his frende Titus, refused to be parswaded. your nails. Sir T. Elyot, The Govern our, ii. 12. Scott , Black Dwarf, xvii. I'll wad a weather he'll gar the blude spin frae under 2. To marry; take for husband or for wife. Thei wedden there no Wyfes; for alle the Wommen there ben commoun, and the i forsake no man. Mandeville , Travels, p. 179. Since the day I saw thee first, and wedded thee. Milton , P. L., ix. 1030. 3. To join in marriage; give or unite in wedlock. In Syracusa was I born, and wed Unto a woman. Shak ., C. of E., i. 1. 37. 4. To unite closely in affection; attach firmly by pa ion or prejudice: as, to be wedded to one's habits or opinions. Men are wedded to their lusts. Til lots on, Sermons. I am not wedded to these ideas. Jefferson, To Colonel Monroe (Correspondence, I. 236). Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Moore , Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet. 5. To unite forever or inseparably. Thou art wedded to calamity. Shak., R. and J., iii. 3. 3. They led the vine To wed her elm. Milton , P. L., v. 215. 6t. To espouse; take part with. They wedded his cause. ... Clarendon. To wed with a rush ring. See rush1. II. in trans. To marry; contract marriage; become united as in matrimony. With Athulf child he wedde. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 9. For to been a wyf he gaf me leve Of indulgence, so it is no repreve To wedde me if that my make dye. Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 85. Thought leapt out to wed with Thought web-worm (web'werm), n. Any one of several lepidopterous larvæ which feed more or le gregariously, and spin large webs into which they retire at night, or within which they feed Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. during the day until the contained foliage is Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxiii. entirely devoured, when the web is enlarged. Wed. An abbreviation of Wednesday . The tent-caterpillars, Clisiocampa american a and C. sylwedbrekt, n. [ME., break .] An adul- vatic a , are web-worms. (See cut under tent - caterpillar .) terer. Early English Psalter , Ps. xlix.18. ( Strat- The fall web-worm is the larva of the bombycid Hyphan tri a cunea. The garden web-worm is the larva of Eury creon rantalis, a pyralid moth of the family Botidæ. This species is not gregarious, but the larvæ form individual webs near the roots of corn, cotton, cabbage, melon, potato, and other cultivated crops in the western United States. Grape web-worm. Same as vine inch-worm (which see, under vine ).- Turf web-worm. Same as sod -worm.