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Bollandists :: Bollandists (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the Acta Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work..

Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..

Chore :: Chore (n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench..

Fieldwork :: Fieldwork (n.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Supererogation :: Supererogate (v. i.) To do more than duty requires; to perform works of supererogation; to atone (for a dificiency in another) by means of a surplus action or quality.

Workless :: Workless (a.) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith..

Lapwork :: Lapwork (n.) Work in which one part laps over another.

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship..

Frock :: Frock (n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock..

Work :: Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works..

Ply :: Ply (v. t.) To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.

Caponiere :: Caponiere (n.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway..

Article :: Article (n.) A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement..

Workmanlike :: Workmanlike (a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed..

Study :: Study (v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture..

Erg :: Erg (n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs..

Stowre :: Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

Work :: Work (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor..

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