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Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..

Act :: Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Modeler :: Modeler (n.) One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art..

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.

Tributer :: Tributer (n.) One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value..

Profiling :: Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points..

Knead :: Knead (v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough..

Enceinte :: Enceinte (n.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.

Spell :: Spell (n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

Compendious :: Compendious (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working..

Hydrant :: Hydrant (n.) A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.

Wirework :: Wirework (n.) Work, especially openwork, formed of wires..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool..

Overwrought :: Overwrought (p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..

Ferment :: Ferment (v. i.) To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce..

Pitman :: Pitman (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc..

Scrim :: Scrim (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim..

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