Obs. [OE. lobbe wk. fem.; cf. loppe, LOP sb.] A spider.

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c. 1000.  Lamb. Ps. lxxxix. 10 (Bosw.). Ure ʓær swa swa lobbe [Vulg. sicut aranea] oððe rynge beoþ asmeade.

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a. 1325.  Prose Psalter xxxviii. 15. Þou madest his soule to stumblen as a lob [Vulg. sicut araneam]. Ibid., lxxxix. 10. Our yeres shal þenchen as þe lob.

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