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Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

zontally, 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.

Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

The quality of being corky.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

A fish; the goldsinny.

The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.

To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.

One who works with another; a co

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

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.