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- English Word Work Definition To cause to ferment, as liquor.
- English Word Workable Definition Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
- English Word Workaday Definition See Workyday.
- English Word Workbag Definition A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
- English Word Workbasket Definition A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.
- English Word Workbench Definition A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
- English Word Workbox Definition A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
- English Word Workday Definition A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
- English Word Worked Definition of Work
- English Word Worker Definition One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
- English Word Worker Definition One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.
- English Word Workfellow Definition One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
- English Word Workfolk Definition People that labor.
- English Word Workful Definition Full of work; diligent.
- English Word Workhouse Definition A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
- English Word Workhouse Definition A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
- English Word Workhouse Definition A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
- English Word Workhouses Definition of Workhouse
- English Word Working Definition of Work
- English Word Working Definition a & n. from Work.
- English Word Working-day Definition Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
- English Word Workingman Definition A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
- English Word Workingmen Definition of Workingman
- English Word Workless Definition Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
- English Word Workless Definition Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith.
- English Word Workman Definition A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
- English Word Workman Definition Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
- English Word Workmanlike Definition Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
- English Word Workmanly Definition Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
- English Word Workmanly Definition In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.