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An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.

Bad workmanship. [Obs.] Heywood.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

A fork for tossing dung.

A pronged fork for turning up the earth.

Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.

The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

The anal fork on which the larvæ of certain insects carry their fæces.

emporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.

gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket i…

passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Anything furcate or like of a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.), a gracef…

sh (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. A serpent seen, with forked tongue. Shak.

See Forcarve, v. t.