3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and
provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Work"ing, a & n. from Work.
The word must cousin be to the working.
Chaucer.
Working beam. See Beam, n. 10. — Working class, the class of people who
are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support;
laborers; operatives; — chiefly used in the plural. — Working day. See
under Day, n. — Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of
a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be
followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail
drawings. — Working house, a house where work is performed; a
workhouse. — Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the
effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
Work"ing-day (?), a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days,
or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
O, how full of briers in this working-day world.
Shak.
Work"ing*man (?), n.; pl. Workingmen (&?;). A laboring man; a man who
earns his daily support by manual labor.
Work"less, a. 1. Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still
workless.
2. Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless
faith. [Obs.] Sir T. More.