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tal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to imparir. [R.] This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Milton.

A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. [Local, Eng. & Scott]

A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is. Shak.

In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.

A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.

Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works. "Dead in trespasses." Eph. ii. 1.

Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

o a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

f the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.

cs), the transformation of energy into some form in which it is less available for doing work.

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.

he nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. Milman.

n, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. A consummate work of deliberative wisdom. Bancroft. The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

ood from; as, to delignate ramie, in the preparation of ribbons of the fiber for further working.