Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Worked"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Work \Work\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Worked}, or {Wrought}; 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['u]rkjan. [root]145. See {Work}, n.]
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.

O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To
match thy goodness? --Shak.

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw
be given you. --Ex. v. 18.

Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life
doth pass. --Sir J.
Davies.

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

We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak.

3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or
influence; to conduce.

We know that all things work together for good to
them that love God. --Rom. viii.
28.

This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he
desired to be taught. --Locke.

She marveled how she could ever have been wrought
upon to marry him. --Hawthorne.

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

They that work in fine flax . . . shall be
confounded. --Isa. xix. 9.

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.

Confused with working sands and rolling waves.
--Addison.

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.

Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned
to each kind. --Milton.

7. To ferment, as a liquid.

The working of beer when the barm is put in.
--Bacon.

8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a
cathartic.

Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so
to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.
--Grew.


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