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ˈnetted, ppl. a. [f. net n.1 or v.1] 1. Covered with, or as with, a net.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 169 b, The windowes..hauing a hole of sufficient widenesse ouer against them, well netted and tunnelled. 1833Sir F. B. Head Bubbles fr. Brunnen 310 The graves were netted over with brambles. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 347 How did North America get netted with iron rails? 1895Atlantic Monthly Mar. 425 The snow, barred and netted by shadows. 2. Made of net or network.
1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4672/4 Supposed to have robbed..his Master of a Silver netted Purse. 1785S. Fielding Ophelia II. i, Like gold through a netted purse. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xviii, The well-reeved guns, the netted canopy. 1866(title) Abridgments of the Specifications relating to Lace and other Looped and Netted Fabrics. 1870Rock Text. Fabr. v. (1876) 39 Rich textiles so figured in gold were denominated ‘de fundato’, or netted. b. Arranged like, or forming a, network.
1805Southey Madoc in Azt. xv, On the strong corselet and the netted mail. 1855Tennyson Brook 176, I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 229 At those points where the spiral or netted fibres separate. Comb.1825Greenhouse Comp. II. 44 Ciconium reticulatum, netted-veined Ciconium. 1857A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) 56 Netted-veined leaves belong to plants which have a pair of seed-leaves or cotyledons. 3. Bot. Having veins, fibres, etc., arranged like network; covered with a network of lines, etc.
1847W. E. Steele Field Bot. 164 Seeds indefinite; testa loose, netted. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §143 Reticulated or netted leaves, in which there is an angular net-work of vessels. 1882Garden 11 Mar. 170/3 The deep crimson of the interior of the bells being finely netted and veined. b. In names of plants, etc.: (see quots.).
1854Encycl. Brit. (ed. 8) V. 181/1 Anona reticulata [yields] the netted Custard-apple. 1857Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 229 The plant is sometimes called Netted Crocus. 1882Garden 4 Mar. 139/3 The Netted Iris (I. reticulata) is in full bloom. 4. Caught in a net.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. (1898) 81 Need you tremble and pant Like a netted lioness? 1867J. Ingelow Story of Doom vii. 19 As in the toils A netted bird. |