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Embroidery. [Archaic] The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell.

especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.…

ed or lacquered in imitation of bronze. -- Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work. -- Berlin work, worsted embroidery.

A kind of embroidery made with a complicated sewing machine, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.

Embroidery. [Obs.] Of goldsmithrye, of browdying, and of steel. Chaucer.

An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimimg of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of chenille rugs.

- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

he ground or varnish in etching. -- Etching stitch (Needlework), a stitch used outline embroidery.

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

t has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McElrath.