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

One who works with another; a co

A subordinate worker or helper. South.

One who underworks.

One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

One who manufactures articles from wire.

One who performs wonders, or miracles.

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

f plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.

An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.

lly, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. xcii 7 Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then. Tennys…

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Tatler. W. Besant.

Leather workers' materials. [Eng.] Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale. [Eng.]

d only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.