Definition of work

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Work (n.) The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch..

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Patron :: Patron (n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art..
Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..
Try-square :: Try-square (n.) An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square..
Stannate :: Stannary (n.) A tin mine; tin works.
Pinked :: Pinked (a.) Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.
Inwork :: Inwork (v. t. & i.) To work in or within.
Wainscoting :: Wainscoting (n.) The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork..
Moil :: Moil (v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Movement :: Movement (n.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch..
Neuroglia :: Neuroglia (n.) The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.
Fortify :: Fortify (v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces..
Topsail :: Topsail (n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship..
Study :: Study (v. t.) To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
Lazuli :: Lazuli (n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone..
Thesaurus :: Thesaurus (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia..
Plight :: Plight (n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) A fortification, or work for defense; a fort..
Gazon :: Gazon (n.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty..
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