Wordiness (n.) The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.
Wording (n.) The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing.
Wordish (a.) Respecting words; full of words; wordy.
Wordle (n.) One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
Wordless (a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.
Wordsman (n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.
Wordy (superl.) Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
Wordy (superl.) Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
Wordy (superl.) Containing many words; full of words.
Wore () imp. of Wear.
Wore () imp. of Ware.
Work (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Work (n.) The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
Work (n.) That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
Work (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
Work (n.) The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
Work (n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
Work (n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
Work (n.) Ore before it is dressed.
Work (n.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
Worked (imp. & p. p.) of Work
Wrought () of Work
Working (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Work
Work (n.) 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.
Work (n.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
Work (n.) Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
Work (n.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
Work (n.) 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.
Work (n.) 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.
Work (n.) To ferment, as a liquid.
Work (n.) To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
Work (v. t.) To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
Work (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
Work (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
Work (v. t.) To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
Work (v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Work (v. t.) To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.
Work (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor.
Workable (a.) Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
Workaday (n.) See Workyday.
Workbag (n.) A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
Workbasket (n.) A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.
Workbench (n.) A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
Workbox (n.) A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
Workday (n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
Worker (n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
Worker (n.) 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 (n.) One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
Workfolk (n.) People that labor.
Workful (a.) Full of work; diligent.
Workhouses (pl. ) of Workhouse
Workhouse (n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
Workhouse (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
Workhouse (n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Working () a & n. from Work.
Working-day (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
Workingmen (pl. ) of Workingman
Workingman (n.) A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
Workless (a.) Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
Workless (a.) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith.
Workmen (pl. ) of Workman
Workman (n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
Workmanlike (a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
Workmanly (a.) Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
Workmanly (adv.) In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.
Workmanship (n.) The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
Workmanship (n.) That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.
Workmaster (n.) The performer of any work; a master workman.
Workroom (n.) Any room or apartment used especially for labor.
Workship (n.) Workmanship.
Workshop (n.) A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
Worktable (n.) A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.
Workwomen (pl. ) of Workwoman
Workwoman (n.) A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
Workyday (n.) A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.
World (n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
World (n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.
World (n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.
World (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
World (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
World (n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
World (n.) The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.
World (n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.
World (n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number.
Worldliness (n.) The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
Worldling () A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
Worldly (a.) Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
Worldly (a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
Worldly (a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical.
Worldly (adv.) With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
Worldly-minded (a.) Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.
World-wide (a.) Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
Worldlywise (a.) Wise in regard to things of this world.
Worm (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
Worm (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
Worm (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
Worm (n.) Any annelid.
Worm (n.) An insect larva.