We need not lavish hours in wordy periods.
Philips.
Wore (?), imp. of Wear.
Wore, imp. of Ware.
Work (wûrk), n. [OE. work, werk, weorc, AS. weorc, worc; akin to
OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG. werc, werah, Icel. & Sw.
verk, Dan. værk, Goth. gawaúrki, Gr. 'e`rgon, e`rgon, work, "re`zein to
do, 'o`rganon an instrument, 'o`rgia secret rites, Zend verez to work.
√145. Cf. Bulwark, Energy, Erg, Georgic, Liturgy, Metallurgy, Organ,
Orgy, Surgeon, Wright.]
1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort
directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes,
specifically, physical labor.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
Milton.
2. 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.
Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of.
Shak.
In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and
prospered.