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The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

Having no fork.

ast Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. "Forky tongues." Pope.

The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton.

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.

Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally. The firmament showeth his handiwork. Ps. xix. 1.

See Handiwork.

A fork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

Mental labor.

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

Work after manner of a hurdle.

The act of working in together; interweaving. Milton.