tapestry(1) (iou) and bromine (sh)

tapestry(1) (iou)

tapestry noun. Also tapissery. LME.
[Old & mod. French tapisserie, from tapissier tapestry-worker or tapisser cover with carpet, from tapis carpet, TAPIS noun.]
A (piece of) thick textile fabric decorated with pictures or designs painted, embroidered, or (usu.) woven in colours, often hung on a wall. LME.
A. Gray Tapestries worked in..gold thread hung from an elaborate cornice.
b. (A piece of) embroidery, orig. as imitating this, usually done in wools on canvas. L19.
fig. A scene, phenomenon, or circumstance presenting rich colour or variety, intricacy of design, etc. L16.
J. R. Lowell Present and Past..inseparably wrought Into the seamless tapestry of thought. Great Outdoors Varieties of heather that create the..colourful Autumn tapestry.
In full tapestry needle. A blunt needle with a large eye, used in tapestry-making and canvas embroidery. L19.
Comb.: tapestry beetle a dermestid beetle, Attagenus piceus, whose larvae are destructive to tapestry, woollens, etc.; tapestry moth a relative of the clothes moths, Trichophaga tapetzella, that attacks coarser textiles; tapestry needle: see sense 3 above; tapestry work = senses 1, 1b above; tapestry-worker a person engaged in tapestry work.

bromine (sh)

Nonmetallic chemical element, chemical symbol Br, atomic number 35.

One of the halogens, it is a deep red, fuming liquid at ordinary temperatures (freezing point 19 °F [-7.2 °C]; boiling point 138 °F [59 °C]) that contains diatomic molecules (Br2), and it does not occur free in Nature. It is obtained from seawater and brines or salt beds. Extremely irritating and toxic, bromine is a strong oxidizing agent (see oxidation-reduction). Its compounds, in which it may have valence 1, 3, 5, or 7, have many uses, including as petroleum additives (ethylene dibromide), in photographic emulsions (silver bromide), as sedatives, and in flour (potassium bromate).

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