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Bad workmanship. [Obs.] Heywood.

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.

temporary 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.

s 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…

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

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.

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.

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.