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ton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shak.

Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. [R.] T. Warton.

Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. -- Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper. Shenstone.

or 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.

Worked or figured stuff; tapestry. [R.] Spenser.

A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).

An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

atures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.

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.…

Of or pertaining to a catapult.

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

A public storehouse.

he columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes. -- n.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]

f the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. -- n.