Obs. [OE. lobbe wk. fem.; cf. loppe, LOP sb.] A spider.
c. 1000. Lamb. Ps. lxxxix. 10 (Bosw.). Ure ʓær swa swa lobbe [Vulg. sicut aranea] oððe rynge beoþ asmeade.
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.