[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

            o thou good kent, how shall i live and work,
            to match thy goodness?                --shak.
      1913 webster

            go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw
            be given you.                         --ex. v. 18.
      1913 webster

            whether we work or play, or sleep or wake,
            our life doth pass.                   --sir j.
                                                  davies.
      1913 webster

   2. hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform;
      as, a machine works well.
      1913 webster

            we bend to that the working of the heart. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or
      influence; to conduce.
      1913 webster

            we know that all things work together for good to
            them that love god.                   --rom. viii.
                                                  28.
      1913 webster

            this so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he
            desired to be taught.                 --locke.
      1913 webster

            she marveled how she could ever have been wrought
            upon to marry him.                    --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   4. to carry on business; to be engaged or employed
      customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor;
      to toil.
      1913 webster

            they that work in fine flax . . . shall be
            confounded.                           --isa. xix. 9.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            confused with working sands and rolling waves.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            till body up to spirit work, in bounds
            proportioned to each kind.            --milton.
      1913 webster

   7. to ferment, as a liquid.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
worked wrought working work to work at to work to windward 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

working \work"ing\,
   a  n. from work.
   1913 webster

         the word must cousin be to the working.  --chaucer.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
work working beam beam working class working day day 
working drawing working house working point 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

working
     adj 1: actively engaged in paid work; "the working population";
            "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working
            mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night"
            syn: workinga, on the jobp
     2: adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in
        strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party
        has a working majority in the house"; "a working knowledge
        of spanish"
     3: adopted as a temporary basis for further work; "a working
        draft"; "a working hypothesis" syn: workinga
     4: of e.g. a machine performing or capable of performing; "in
        running or working order"; "a functional set of brakes"
        syn: runninga, operative, functional, workinga
     5: serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity;
        "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they
        need working agreements with their neighbor states on
        interstate projects"
     n : a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked syn: workings
see also:
workinga on the jobp runninga operative functional workings 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

188 moby thesaurus words for "working":
   accomplishment, acetification, acidification, acidulation, act,
   acting, action, active, activism, activity, agency, alive,
   alkalization, answer, ascertainment, at it, at work, banausic,
   barmy, behavior, behavioral, breadwinning, businesslike, busy,
   carbonation, catalysis, chemicalization, clearing up, commercial,
   conduct, contour plowing, cracking, cultivating, cultivation,
   culture, decipherment, decoding, denouement, determination,
   diastatic, direction, disentanglement, doing, dressing, driving,
   drudging, dynamic, electrolysis, employed, employment, end,
   end result, engaged, enzymic, execution, exercise, explanation,
   exploitation, fallowing, ferment, fermentation, fermenting,
   finding, finding-out, full of business, function, functional,
   functioning, furrowing, going, going on, grinding, grubbing,
   handling, hard at it, hard at work, hardworking, harrowing, hoeing,
   hydrogenation, in exercise, in force, in hand, in harness,
   in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works,
   inaction, interpretation, isomerism, issue, laboring, leavening,
   listing, live, management, manipulation, materialistic, metamerism,
   metamerization, moneymaking, movements, nitration, occupation,
   occupied, on duty, on foot, on the fire, on the go, on the hop,
   on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, ongoing,
   operancy, operating, operation, operational, operations, operative,
   outcome, oxidation, oxidization, pegging, performance, performing,
   phosphatization, play, plodding, plowing, plugging, polymerism,
   polymerization, position isomerism, practical, practice,
   practicing, praxis, prosaic, pruning, raising, realistic, reason,
   reduction, resolution, resolving, responsibility, result, riddling,
   running, saturization, serving, slaving, slogging, solution,
   solving, sorting out, steering, straining, striving, struggling,
   sweating, swing, thinning, tied up, tilling, toiling, unraveling,
   unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting,
   unweaving, upshot, using, utilitarian, utilization, weeding, work,
   workaday, workday, working-out, workings, yeasty

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