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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Mil.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Engin.) (a) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc. (b) An embankment or construction made of earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts; also called a pyrotechnic device. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The art of designing fireworks for purposes of entertainment is called pyrotechnics. The name firework is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.

2. pl. A pyrotechnic exhibition; an entertainment consisting of the discharge of fireworks{ 1 }. [ Obs. in the sing. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ironing that can be done mechanically.
Syn. -- flat wash. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mus.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. [ 1913 Webster ]

A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 6th fret + work. ] Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who cuts flat glass to size.
Syn. -- glasscutter, glazier, glazer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a place where glass is made. [ WordNet 1.5 ]