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The working room of an artist.

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  • ARTISTE
    One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook. Note: This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.
  • WORKMANSHIP
    1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
  • WORKBAG
    A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
  • WORKBENCH
    A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
  • ARTIST
    1. One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller. 2. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside
  • WORKDAY
    A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
  • WORKSHOP
    A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
  • WORK
    1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir
  • ARTISTRY
    1. Works of art collectively. 2. Artistic effect or quality. Southey. 3. Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. The Academy.
  • WORKFELLOW
    One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
  • WORKSHIP
    Workmanship.
  • WORKYDAY
    A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.
  • WORKMAN
    1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
  • WORKWAYS; WORKWISE
    In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.
  • WORKMANLY
    Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
  • WORKADAY
    See WORKYDAY
  • WORKFUL
    Full of work; diligent.
  • WORKBOX
    A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
  • WORKMANLIKE
    Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
  • WORKROOM
    Any room or apartment used especially for labor.
  • ROCKWORK
    Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
  • CHECKWORK
    Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
  • CHARTIST
    A supporter or partisan of chartism.
  • JOURNEYWORK
    Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
  • FRETWORK
    Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
  • RUBBLEWORK
    Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • CUTWORK
    An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
  • BOBBINWORK
    Work woven with bobbins.
  • STOCKWORK
    A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  • CARTIST
    In Spain and Portugal, one who supports the constitution.
  • LAPWORK
    Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
  • CHAINWORK
    Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
  • PANELWORK
    Wainscoting.
  • BOOKWORK
    1. Work done upon a book or books , in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books.
  • BANTAM WORK
    Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
  • CATCHWORK
    A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

 

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