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A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.

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

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

The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton.

Bad workmanship. [Obs.] Heywood.

One who does tut-work. Tomlinson.

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.

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

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

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.

Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.…

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.