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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Fretty :: Fretty (a.) Adorned with fretwork.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object..
Caul :: Caul (n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net..
Striker :: Striker (n.) A workman who is on a strike.
Mason :: Mason (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art..
Hogger :: Hogger (n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work..
Retecious :: Retecious (a.) Resembling network; retiform.
Workmanly :: Workmanly (a.) Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
Wark :: Wark (n.) Work; a building.
Welt :: Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint..
Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.
Stockwork :: Stockwork (n.) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories..
Tapestry :: Tapestry (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery..
Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) A fortification, or work for defense; a fort..
Ruck :: Ruck (v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework..
Praise :: Praise (v.) To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.
Quite :: Quite (a.) Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken..
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..
Deskwork :: Deskwork (n.) Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer..
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