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One who manufactures articles from wire.

Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

One who performs wonders, or miracles.

Doing wonders or surprising things.

A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.

Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.

"Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

alifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.] The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton.

ract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

rement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

An earthwork; a mound; a raised work. [Obs.] Hearne.

Conjecture; guess. [Obs.] What you would work me to, I have some aim. Shak. To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [Obs.] Shak.