a character in the book GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens. She is a strange, rich old woman who hates men because her future husband left her on their wedding day. She still wears her wedding dress and everything in her house has been left exactly as it was on her wedding day, and is now covered in COBWEB s .
lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock; a source of glycerol
a character from a NURSERY RHYME (= an old song or poem for young children) . She is a young girl who is frightened by a SPIDER and runs away. The rhyme goes: Little Miss Muffet/Sat on a tuffet,/Eating her curds and whey;/There came a great SPIDER,/Who sat down beside her,/And frightened Miss Muffet away.