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Lancasterian plan, at which are taught 220 boys. There is 
also a female seminary, at which there are 90 girls. A little 
above Workington are those large works called Seaton iron¬ 
works, which give bread to several hundreds of industrious 
mechanics; 34 miles south-west-by-west from Carlisle, and 
310 north-west-by-north from London. Population 5807. 
WO'RKMAN, s. An artificer; a maker of any thing. 
When workmen strive to do better than well. 
They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shakspeare. 
WO'RKMANLIKE, adj. Skilful; well performed. 
The gardener— 
Their selected plants doth, workmanlike, bestow. Drayton. 
WO'RKMANLY, adj. Skilful; well performed; work¬ 
manlike. 
WO'RKMANLY, adv. Skilfully; in a manner beco¬ 
ming a workman. 
We will fetch thee straight 
Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. 
Scratching her legs, that one shall swear she bleeds. 
And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, 
So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn. Shakspeare. 
WORKMANSHIP, s. Manufacture; something made 
by any one.—By how much Adam exceeded all men in per¬ 
fection, by being the immediate workmanship of God, by so 
much did that chosen garden exceed all parts of the world. 
Ralegh. —The skill of a worker; the degree cf skill disco¬ 
vered in any manufacture. 
The Tritonian goddess having heard 
Her blazed fame, which all the world had fill’d, 
Came down to prove the truth, and due reward, 
For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. 
The art of working.—If there were no metals, ’tis a mys¬ 
tery to me how Tuhalcain could ever have taught the work¬ 
manship and use of them. Woodward. 
WORKMASTER, s. The performer of any work. 
Desire, which tends to know 
The works of God, thereby to glorify 
The great workmaster, leads to no excess. Milton. 
WORKSALL, High and Low, adjoining townships of 
England, North Riding of Yorkshire; about 4 miles south¬ 
west of Yarm. 
WORKSHOP, s. The place where the workman car¬ 
ries on his work.—Supreme beauty is seldom found in cot¬ 
tages or workshops. Johnson. 
WORKSOP, a market town of England, in the county of 
Nottingham, near the west side of the county, near which is 
the course of the Chesterfield canal to join the Trent, to the 
north-west of which, within the parish, are the Shire Oaks, 
so named from one spreading oak, whose branches were said 
to overshadow a small portion of three counties, Notting¬ 
hamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire. It is near the head 
of the small river Ryton, and is noted for its malt and liquo¬ 
rice. Leland says it was anciently called Radeford. It now 
consists principally of two streets. It had formerly a priory, 
of which the ancient church is still in existence, and is a fine 
old building, well deserving the traveller’s notice. On the 
west is a circular entrenchment on a hill, the site of the 
ancient castle, which commanded a branch of the river. On 
the left is a road to Chesterfield, and a mile beyond is an¬ 
other to Sheffield. Its market is on Wednesday, and the 
fairs are March 20, May 20, June 21, and October 3; 26J 
miles north of Nottingham, and 147 north-west of London. 
Population 3702. 
WORKUM, a town of the Netherlands, in the province 
of Friesland ; 20 miles south-south-west of Leeuwarden. Po¬ 
pulation 1400. 
WORKUM, or Woudrichem, a town of the Nether¬ 
lands, in North Brabant. Population 600. 
WORKWOMAN, s. A woman skilled in needle-work. 
The most fine-fingered workwoman on ground, 
Arachne, by his means was vanquished. Spenser. 
A woman that works for hire. 
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WORKYDAY, s. The day not the sabbath.—Tell her 
but a workyday fortune. Shakspeare. 
WORLABY, or Worletby, a parish of England, in 
Lincolnshire; 5 miles north-by-east of Glanford Bridge. 
WORLD, s. [poplb, Saxon; wereld, Dutch.] World 
is the great collective idea of all bodies whatever. Locke .— 
System of beings. 
Know how this world 
Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began. Milton. 
The earth; the terraqueous globe. 
He the world 
Built on circumfluous waters. Milton. 
Present state of existence. 
I’m in this earthly world, where to do harm 
Is often laudable; to do good sometime 
Accounted dangerous folly. Shakspeare. 
A secular life. 
Happy is she that from the world retires. 
And carries with her what the world admires. 
Thrice happy she, whose young thoughts fixt above, 
While she is lovely, does to heav’n make love; 
I need not urge your promise, ere you find 
An entrance here, to leave the world behind ? Waller. 
Public life; the public. 
Why dost thou shew me thus to th’ world ? 
Bear me to prison. 
Shakspeare. 
Business of life; trouble of life. 
Here I’ll set up my everlasting rest. 
And shake the yoke of man’s suspicious stars 
From this w or Id- wearied flesh. 
Shakspeare. 
Great multitude. 
You a world of curses undergo. 
Being the agents, or base second means. 
Shakspeare. 
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company; 
For you in my respect are all the world. 
Shakspeare. 
Mankind; an hyperbolical expression for many: all the 
world is a favourite phrase in French, for many. 
’Tis the duke’s pleasure. 
Whose disposition, all the world well knows, 
Will not be rubb’d nor stopp’d. Shakspeare. 
Course of life.—Persons of conscience will be afraid to be¬ 
gin the world unjustly. Richardson. —Universal empire.—■ 
Rome was to sway the world. Milton. —The manners of 
men ; the practice of life.—Children should not know any 
wickedness. Old folks have discretion, and know the world. 
Shakspeare. —Every thing that the world contains.—Had I 
now a thousand worlds, I would give them all for one year 
more, that I might present to God one year'of such devotion 
and good works, as I never before so much as intended. 
Law. —A large tract of country; a wide compass of things. 
’Tis T who love’s Columbus am, ’tis I, 
That must new worlds in it descry. Cowley. 
A collection of wonders; a wonder. Obsolete _The 
bassa having recommended Barbarussa, it was a world to see 
how the court was changed upon him. Knolles .—Time. 
A sense originally Saxon; now only used in World without 
end. 
In the World. In possibility.—All the precautions in 
the world were taken for the marriage of his younger bro¬ 
ther. Addison. 
For all the World. Exactly. A ludicrous sense; now 
little used.—He had a pair of horns like a bull, his feet clo¬ 
ven, as many eyes upon his body as my grey mare hath dap¬ 
ples, and/or all the world so placed. Sidney. 
WORLDHAM, East and West, two adjoining parishes 
of England, in Southamptonshire, near Alton. 
WORLDLINESS, s. Covetousness; addictedness to 
gain. 
WORLDLING, $. A mortal set upon profit. 
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