won 
W 0 R 
738 
modifies to the last degree of manufacture. Swift. —To 
bring by action into any state. 
So the pure limpid stream, when foul with stains 
Of rushing torrents and descending rains. 
Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines, 
Till by degrees the floating mirrour shines. Addison. 
To influence by successive impulses. 
To hasten his destruction, come yourself, 
And work your royal father to his ruin. A. Philips. 
To make by gradual labour, and continued violence.— 
Sidelong he works his way. Milton. —To produce by 
labour; to effect. 
Of the tree, 
Which, tasted, works knowledge of good and evil, 
Thou may’st not: in the day thou eat’st, thou dy’st. Milton. 
To manage; in a state of motion ; to put into motion.— 
Mere personal valour could not supply want of knowledge in 
building and working ships. Arbuthnot. —To put to labour; 
to exert. 
Now, Marcus, thy virtue’s on the proof; 
Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve, 
And call up all thy father in thy soul. Addison. 
To embroider with a needle ; as, she worked an apron.— 
I worked a violet leaf. Spectator. 
To Work out. To effect by toil.—The mind takes the 
hint from the poet, and works out the rest by the strength of 
her own faculties. Addison. 
To Work out. To erase ; to efface. 
Tears of joy for your returning spilt, 
Work out and expiate our former guilt. Pry den. 
To Work up. To raise.—That which is wanting to work 
up the pity to a greater height, was not afforded me by the 
story. Dryden. 
To Work up. To expend in any work, as materials. 
WORK, s. [peopc, Sax.; werk, Dutch.] Toil; labour; 
employment. 
The ground, unbid, gives more than we can ask; 
But work is pleasure, when we chuse our task. Dryden. 
A state of labour.—All the world is perpetually at work, 
only that our poor mortal lives should pass the happier for 
that little time v/e possess them, or else end the better when 
we lose them : upon this occasion riches came to be coveted, 
honours esteemed, friendship pursued, and virtues admired. 
Temple. —Bungling attempt.—It is pleasant to see what work 
our adversaries make with this innocent canon; sometimes ’Ls 
a mere forgery of heretics, and sometimes the bishops that met 
there were not so wise as they should have been. Stilling- 
fleet. —Flowers or embroidery of the needle.—That hand- 
'kerchief, you gave me : I must take out the work: a likely 
piece of work, that you should find it in your chamber, and 
know not who left it there. This is some minx's token, and 
I must take out the work. There, give it your hobby¬ 
horse : wheresoever you had it, I’ll take out no work on’t 
Shaksp&are.—A ny fabric or compages of art. 
Nor was the work impair’d by storms alone, 
But felt the approaches of too warm a sun. Pope. 
Action ; feat; deed. 
Nothing lovelier can be found in woman, 
Than good works in her husband to promote. Milton. 
Any thing made. 
O fairest of creation ! last and best 
Of all God’s works ! creature, in whom excels 
Whatever can to sight or thought be form’d ; 
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet, 
How art thou lost! Milton. 
Operation—As to the composition or dissolution of mixt 
bodies, which is the chief work of elements, and requires an 
intire application of the agents, water hath the principality 
and excess over earth. Digby. —Effect; consequence of 
agency. 
Fancy 
Wild work produces oft and most in dreams. Milton. 
Management; treatment.—Let him alone; I’ll go another 
way to work with him. Shakspeare. 
To set on Work. To employ; to engage.—It setteth 
those wits on work in better things, which would be else em¬ 
ployed in worse. Hooker. 
WO'RKER, s. Whoever or whatever works. 
Ye fair nymphs, which often times have loved 
The cruel worker of your kindly smarts. 
Prepare yourselves, and open wide your hearts. Spenser. 
WO'RKFELLOW, s. One engaged in the same work 
with another.—Timotheus, my workfellow, and Lucius, salute 
you. Rom. 
WO'RKFOLK, s. Persons employed in working. 
Thou shalt—oversee my work-folks, 
And at the week’s end pay them all their wages. 
Beaum. and FI. 
WO'RKHOUSE, or Wo'rkinghouse, s . A place in 
which any manufacture is carried on.—The quick forge and 
workinghouse of thought. Shakspeare. —A place where 
idlers and vagabonds are condemned to labour.—Hast thou 
suffered at any time by vagabonds and pilferers ? Esteem and 
promote those useful chanties which remove such pests into 
prisons and workhouses. Atterbury. 
WO'RKING, s. Motion; operation. 
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. 
When lor fame’s sake 
We bend to that the working of the heart. Shakspeare. 
We see the workings of gratitude in the Israelites. South. 
—Fermentation.—Staying the working of beer. Bacon. 
WO'RKINGDAY, s. Day on which labour is per¬ 
mitted ; not the sabbath : it therefore is taken for coarse and 
common.—How full of briars is this workingday world > 
Shakspeare. 
WORKINGTON, a seaport and market town of England, 
in Cumberland, which is situated near where the Derwent 
and Cocker fall into the ocean. Many of the streets are 
narrow and irregular; but some are elegant and neat; and, 
upon the whole, this town is more agreeable than most ports 
of equal size in the kingdom. Though it seems to have been 
anciently the chief haven in Cumberland, yet it appears, that 
in 1566 only one vessel belonging thereto was of so great a 
burden as ten tons; and, on a survey taken of the maritime 
strength of the county, about 20 years after that period, when 
England commanded the seas, all the vessels which Cum¬ 
berland could put lo sea amounted only to 10 in number, 
and their mariners to 198. Workington has increased ra¬ 
pidly of late years, and many handsome buildings have been 
erected. The coal trade to Ireland is its chief support. A 
few vessels are, however, employed in the Baltic trade. The 
imports are timber, bar-iron, and flax. The river is navi¬ 
gable for ships of 400 tons burden: and the harbour is com¬ 
modious, and extremely safe from all winds. There are now 
about 160 vessels belonging to this port; upon an average, 
of about 130 tons each. The principal manufactories are of 
sail-cloth and cordage. The public buildings are modern. 
Not far from the town, a spacious workhouse, for the re¬ 
ception and support of the poor, was erected a few years ago, 
which cost the inhabitants 1600/., and is calculated to con¬ 
tain 150 persons. A considerable salmon fishery on this 
river belongs to lord Lonsdale. The collieries in the vicinity 
of Workington, which are numerous and valuable, belong to 
Mr. Curwen, who ships from thence about 150 u'aggons per 
day (Sundays excepted), each waggon containing three 
English tons of coals. Several steam-engines are employed 
in these coal-works, and between 500 and 600 men. The 
manor-house of the family of Curwen stands upon a fine 
eminence on the banks of the Derwent. It is an elegant 
quadrangular building, surrounded with excellent lands, in 
a fine state of cultivation. The house commands a prospect 
of the town, the river, and its northern banks, and the western 
ocean for a considerable tract. There is a school on the 
Lancasterian 
