a. rare. [f. WEB sb. + -LESS.] Not furnished with a web.
1832. Chester Chron., 24 Feb., 4/2. The webless species [of spider] are often endowed with the faculty of leaping, and after insidiously approaching their prey by the most wary and almost imperceptible footsteps, they spring upon it at once, and inflict the fatal wound.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., II. v. [iv.]. O’er still and webless looms The listless craftsmen through their elf-locks scowled.
