Word Meanings - WORKYDAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.
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- PRITHEE
A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I. Shak. What was that scream for, I prithee L'Estrange. Prithee, tell me, Dimple-chin. E. C. Stedman. - 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. - WORKDAY
A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day. - FORTUNELESS
Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser. - WORKSHOP
A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on. - DISTINGUISHABLE
1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. - FORTUNE
1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. Chaucer. 2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. Dryden. - DISTINGUISH
1. To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle. 2. To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self - DISTINGUISHMENT
Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt. - 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 - SUNDAY
The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc. Syn. -- See - WORKFELLOW
One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work. - DISTINGUISHABLY
So as to be distinguished. - DISTINGUISHING
Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet - WORKSHIP
Workmanship. - WORKYDAY
A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak. - DISTINGUISHABLENESS
The quality of being distinguishable. - WORKMAN
1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer. - 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. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - JOURNEYWORK
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - 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. - 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. - MISFORTUNED
Unfortunate. - 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. - BOOKWORK
1. Work done upon a book or books , in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books. - BANTAM WORK
Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.