I . n.
1.
Spider's web.
2.
Entanglement, snare, meshes, toils, insidious intricacy.
3.
Flimsy or frail thing, piece of flimsiness.
4.
Musty tradition, hoary and useless custom, worthless time-worn trappings.
II . a.
Flimsy, slight, gauzy, worthless, thin.