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Stairhead :: Staircase (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc..

Tracer/y :: Tracer/y (n.) Ornamental work with rambled lines.

Lanifical :: Lanifical (a.) Working in wool.

Drudge :: Drudge (v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

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..

Cabinetwork :: Cabinetwork (n.) The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture..

Grout :: Grout (n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt..

Relay :: Relay (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing..

Opus :: Opus (n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition..

Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds..

Dehors :: Dehors (n.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face..

Systematizer :: Systematize (v. t.) To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas..

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts..

Interbastation :: Interbastation (n.) Patchwork.

Net :: Net (v. t.) To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk..

Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..

Valenciennes Lace :: Valenciennes lace () A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net..

Spell :: Spell (n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead..

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