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Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]

Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.

A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

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.

izontally, 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.

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.

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.