Work"shop` (?), n. A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried
on.
Work"ta`ble (?), n. A table for holding working materials and
implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for
needlework, etc.
Work"wom`an (?), n.; pl. Workwomen (&?;), n. A woman who performs any
work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
Work"y*day` (?), n. [See Workday, Workingday.] A week day or working
day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.
[Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.]
Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune.
Shak.
World (?), n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold;
akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G.
welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man,
lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld
lifetime, age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]
1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of
created things; existent creation; the universe.
The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen.
Rom. 1. 20.
With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of
heaven and earth conspicuous first began.
Milton.
2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human
interests; as, a plurality of worlds. "Lord of the worlds above." I.
Watts.
Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand
seemed other worlds.
Milton.
There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated
their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign.
W. B. Sprague.
3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human
affairs and interests.
That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world,
and all our woe.
Milton.
4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns
which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of
the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain
position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence;
scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the
religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world;
the heathen world.
One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety.
Shak.
Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end
— for so they counted Britain.
Milton.
5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of
life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of
the world.
Happy is she that from the world retires.
Waller.
If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in
ignorance.
Addison.
6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum
of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with
no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the
public; mankind.
Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
the world can say against it.
Shak.
Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid
a journey?
Shak.
8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of
this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present
existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or
absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly
or wicked part of mankind.
I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for
they are thine.
John xvii. 9.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that
is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.