Workbench
(Work"bench`) n. A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
Workbox
(Work"box`) n. A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
Workday
(Work"day`) n. & a. [AS. weorcdæg.] A day on which work is performed, as distinguished
from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
Worker
(Work"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.
Shak. 2. (Zoöl.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers
are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under
White.
Workfellow
(Work"fel`low) n. One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
Workfolk
(Work"folk`) n. People that labor.
Workful
(Work"ful) a. Full of work; diligent. [R.]
Workhouse
(Work"house`) n.; pl. Workhouses [AS. weorchs.]
1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Working
(Work"ing), a & n. from Work.
The word must cousin be to the working.
Chaucer. Working beam. See Beam, n. 10. — Working class, the class of people who are engaged in
manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; — chiefly used in the plural. —
Working day. See under Day, n. — Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a
structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings
are either general or detail drawings. — Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse.
— Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the
useful work is done.
Working-day
(Work"ing-day) a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence,
plodding; hard-working.
O, how full of briers in this working-day world.
Shak. Workingman
(Work"ing*man) n.; pl. Workingmen A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support
by manual labor.
Workless
(Work"less), a.
1. Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
2. Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
