Word Meanings - SMITHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape. Moxon.

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• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. 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. 2. That
• WORKBAG
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
• WORKBENCH
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• FORGING
  A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel. There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times. (more info) 1. The act of shaping metal by hammering
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• WORKDAY
  A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• FORGEMAN
  A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.
• FORGIVING
  Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.
• DESIROUS
  Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. John xvi. 19. Be not desirous of his dainties. Prov. xxiii. 3.
• FORGOTTEN
  p. p. of Forget.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• SHAPER
  1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool,
• FORGERY
  1. The act of forging metal into shape. Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. 2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be
• SHAPELY
  1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to
• FORGIVE
  forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See 1. To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave,
• WORK
  1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir
• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• FRETWORK
  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.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• CUTWORK
  An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
• BOBBINWORK
  Work woven with bobbins.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• LAPWORK
  Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• PANELWORK
  Wainscoting.
• AWL-SHAPED
  Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.
• BOOKWORK
  1. Work done upon a book or books , in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books.