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imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought [created]! Chaucer.

Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. [Obs.] Pope.

Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton.

Badly wrought. Bacon.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.

Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.] The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.

, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -- Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied gene…

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight.

e a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. -- Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. -- Blood blister. See under Blood.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.

s, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.