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Chainwork :: Chainwork (n.) Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

Rasante :: Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them..

Menaion :: Menaion (n.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same..

Stitchel :: Stitch (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework..

Reticulation :: Reticulation (n.) The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net..

Scapple :: Scapple (v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry..

Stitch :: Stitch (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance..

Casing :: Casing (n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4..

Redoubt :: Redoubt (n.) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin..

Hemstitched :: Hemstitched (a.) Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief..

Underworker :: Underworker (n.) One who underworks.

Optimism :: Optimism (n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good..

Haymaking :: Haymaking (n.) The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

Chasing :: Chasing (n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way..

Contractor :: Contractor (n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad..

Manualist :: Manualist (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.

Operameter :: Operameter (n.) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter..

Swash :: Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work..

Timbering :: Timbering (n.) The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber..

Brazil Wood :: Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named..

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