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Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen.

Ex. xxviii. 39.

Em*broid"er*er (?), n. One who embroiders.

Em*broid"er*y (?), n.; pl. Embroideries (&?;). 1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.

2. Diversified ornaments, 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.

Em*broil" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embroiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embroiling.] [F. embrouiller; pref. em- (L. in) + brouiller. See 1st Broil, and cf. Imbroglio.] 1. To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.

The royal house embroiled in civil war.

Dryden.

2. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.

The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with &?;able and legend.

Addison.

Syn. -- To perplex; entangle; distract; disturb; disorder; trouble; implicate; commingle.

Em*broil", n. See Embroilment.

Em*broil"er (?), n. One who embroils.

Em*broil"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. embrouillement.] The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.

Em*bronze" (?), v. t. 1. To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person. [Poetic]

2. To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.

Em*broth"el (?), v. t. To inclose in a brothel. [Obs.] Donne.

{ Em*broud"e (?), Em*browd"e, Em*broyd"e (?) }, v. t. To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.]

Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red.

Chaucer.

Em*brown" (?), v. t. [Pref. em- (L. in) + brown.] To give a brown color to; to imbrown.

Summer suns embrown the laboring swain.

Fenton.