Definition of work

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Work (n.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well..

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Jobber :: "Jobber (n.) One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue..
Imagery :: Imagery (n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass..
Counterguard :: Counterguard (n.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire..
Contemplative :: Contemplative (n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity..
Stonewort :: Stonework (n.) Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
Average :: Average (n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc..
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..
Tournery :: Tournery (n.) Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
Museum :: Museum (n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art..
Filer :: Filer (n.) One who works with a file.
Wicker :: Wicker (n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket..
Masora :: Masora (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries..
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Cabbiri :: Cabbiri (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals..
Therapeutae :: Therapeutae (n. pl.) A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited..
Wearisome :: Wearisome (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book..
Windlass :: Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
Frontier :: Frontier (n.) An outwork.
Vermiculate :: Vermiculate (v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms..
Mangler :: Mangler (n.) One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
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