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Oven :: Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting..

Hack :: Hack (n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses..

Ragwork :: Ragwork (n.) A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones..

Botchery :: Botchery (n.) A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship..

Dig :: Dig (v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

Overwork :: Overwork (v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength..

Unable :: Unable (a.) Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue..

Shamoying :: Shamoying (n.) A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning..

Marteline :: Marteline (n.) A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

Yaw :: Yaw (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Sillon :: Sillon (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it..

Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.

Legal :: Legal (a.) According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation..

Siderostat :: Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

Foreman :: Foreman (n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer..

Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..

Shopboard :: Shopboard (n.) A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.

Housewife :: Housewife (n.) A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy..

Anaglyptography :: Anaglyptography (n.) The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc..

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