Definition of work

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Work (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth..

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Rendering :: Rendering (n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
Tome :: Tome (n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume..
Trabecula :: Trabecula (n.) A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision..
Critic :: Critic (n.) One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer..
Pitman :: Pitman (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc..
Foreground :: Foreground (n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6..
Aver :: Aver (n.) A work horse, or working ox..
Laster :: Laster (n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last..
Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..
Shell :: Shell (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Labor :: Labor (n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
Pyrotechnical :: Pyrotechnical (a.) Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them..
Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
Linkwork :: Linkwork (n.) Mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another..
Puddling :: Puddling (n.) The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material..
Ceramics :: Ceramics (n.) Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc..
Kit :: Kit (m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like..
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