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wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.

A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.

A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nd commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.

Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness, n. They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. Longfellow.…

The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.

A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.

One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

The act or art of setting type.

A genus of Carnivora including the foxes.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

A grapestone.

santly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.