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The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

A framework for supporting a bed.

An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

e other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. -- Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored strip…

Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian…

life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel. The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered. Hooker.

rms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. Gwilt.

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

er; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

te in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.