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work \work\ w^urk, v. i. imp.  p. p. worked w^urkt,
   or wrought raddt; p. pr.  vb. n. working. as.
   wyrcean imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht; akin
   to ofries. werka, wirka, os. wirkian, d. werken, g. wirken,
   icel. verka, yrkja, orka, goth. wa'urkjan. root145. see
   work, n.
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   1. to exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for
      the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in
      the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
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            o thou good kent, how shall i live and work,
            to match thy goodness?                --shak.
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            go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw
            be given you.                         --ex. v. 18.
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            whether we work or play, or sleep or wake,
            our life doth pass.                   --sir j.
                                                  davies.
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   2. hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform;
      as, a machine works well.
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            we bend to that the working of the heart. --shak.
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   3. hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or
      influence; to conduce.
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            we know that all things work together for good to
            them that love god.                   --rom. viii.
                                                  28.
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            this so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he
            desired to be taught.                 --locke.
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            she marveled how she could ever have been wrought
            upon to marry him.                    --hawthorne.
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   4. to carry on business; to be engaged or employed
      customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor;
      to toil.
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            they that work in fine flax . . . shall be
            confounded.                           --isa. xix. 9.
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   5. to be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a
      state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to
      strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
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            confused with working sands and rolling waves.
                                                  --addison.
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   6. to make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or
      penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a
      following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through,
      and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work
      into the earth.
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            till body up to spirit work, in bounds
            proportioned to each kind.            --milton.
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   7. to ferment, as a liquid.
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            the working of beer when the barm is put in.
                                                  --bacon.
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   8. to act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a
      cathartic.
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            purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so
            to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.
                                                  --grew.
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   to work at, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.

   to work to windward naut., to sail or ply against the
      wind; to tack to windward. --mar. dict.
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see also:
worked wrought working work to work at to work to windward 

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