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To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.

One who embroiders.

Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.

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.

Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] Southey.

of 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.…

ined 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.

Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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.

Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. I embroidered for you a beautiful pair of braces. Thackeray.

ent of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.

To embroider. [Archaic] They shall make a broidered coat. Ex. xxviii. 4.

One who embroiders. [Archaic]

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

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

e goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

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.