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Definition of work

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Work (n.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth..

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Overply :: Overply (v. t.) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork.

Fiction :: Fiction (n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances..

Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork..

Strength :: Strength (n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

Waxworker :: Waxworker (n.) One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

Solifidian :: Solifidian (n.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian..

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..

Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion..

Matting :: Matting (v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc..

Shell :: Shell (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.

Inlay :: Inlay (v. t.) To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions..

Prospectus :: Prospectus (n.) A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work..

Elaborate :: Elaborate (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work..

Filigree :: Filigree (n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern..

Overlabor :: Overlabor (v. t.) To cause to labor excessively; to overwork.

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud..

Moonshiner :: Moonshiner (n.) A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.

Hereford :: Hereford (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent..

Beadwork :: Beadwork (n.) Ornamental work in beads.