n. Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Publishing) photographs, illustrations, or other visual representations other than the text, in a printed publication.
Syn. -- art, graphics, nontextual matter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + work. ] At work; in action. “Set awork.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + working. ] At work; in action. [ Archaic or Colloq. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ornamental work in beads. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bifurcate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work woven with bobbins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the exterior body of a motor vehicle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Study; application to books. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Same as Buhl, Buhlwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Anything made of bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of building with or laying bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ From A. Ch. Boule, a French carver in wood. ] Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [ Written also boule, boulework. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. active work of little value, performed merely to occupy time, avoid boredom, or to look busy; as, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork.
Syn. -- make-work. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. [ 1913 Webster ]

How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Masonry) Rubblework faced with stone. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex. ] 1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. --
Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Corked p. pr. & vb. n. Corking. ] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Min.) A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being corky. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. shaped like a corkscrew; spiral; helical. [ PJC ]

corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A fish; the goldsinny. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The wood of the cork oak. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky wood; esp.: (a) In the United States, the tree Leitneria floridana, a very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in the southeastern US having extremely light wood; -- called also the corkwood tree. (b) In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum. (2) The tree producing the aligator apple. (3) The blolly. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tasting of cork. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To work in opposition to; to counteract. [ 1913 Webster ]

That counterworks each folly and caprice. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works with another; a cooperator.
Syn. -- colleague, coworker, fellow worker, fellow-worker, workfellow. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Naut.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bad workmanship. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. hard menial routine work.
Syn. -- drudgery, grind, scut work. [ WordNet 1.5 ]