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An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. -- Artillery train, or Train of artillery, a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching.…

Works of art collectively.

east appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper.

We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.

A workshop; a studio.

A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

chine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.

A work horse, or working ox. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. Se…

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

f plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.

alance true. Cowper. The order and balance of the country were destroyed. Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. J. S. Mill.