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The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton.

The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] Spenser.

A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accide…

Any room or apartment used especially for labor.

Workmanship. [R.]

A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.

In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.

A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.] Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.

or ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, deriving its name from the city of York, in England; also, the system itself, which, in England, confers only the first three degrees.

The one of the three printed uses of England which was followed in the north. It was based on the Sarum use. See Use, n., 6. Shipley.

A tice.

A county in the north of England. Yorkshire grit, a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers. Simmonds. -- Yorkshire pudding, a batter pudding baked under meat.

"Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

lifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.] The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton.

act of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.