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A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak.

drawings are either general or detail drawings. -- Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. -- Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.

Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.

The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] Spenser.

A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate. But God is to be worshiped. Shak. When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. Milton.

ting, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.

res strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it.