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    Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Worked} (w[^u]rkt),
    or {Wrought} (r[add]t); 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.

    {To work at}, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.

    {To work to windward} (Naut.), to sail or ply against the
    wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict.

    1. The sterling value of overseas equities and bonds was also greatly increased. So, it all worked out well in the end, but, nevertheless, the fundamentals of UK equity market valuation are stretched.
    2. But Mr. Iacocca counters, "I never worked harder in my life than in the last couple of years.
    3. In the British case, targeting the south of England, it worked, but the US is a much bigger place. A common thread of the US electoral comparisons is the insider-outsider contrast.
    4. Manafort, however, said his firm "has worked within the existing system at HUD." "We played by the rules," Manafort said. "I understand that the subcommittee views the process as fundamentally flawed.
    5. We worked out all the safety aspects," he said.
    6. According to Kelly, maintenance personnel at the airport said the plane's chutes worked properly and that people often suffer ankle and back sprains from the sharp drop down an emergency chute.
    7. In the five years since it was formed, HFL has worked on seven of them.
    8. The problem is not simply that Mr. Nair might have worked on the article published May 11 on these pages, something that strikes us as hardly enough to threaten the state security of Singapore.
    9. At his height he was one of the closest allies of Baroness Thatcher, the former prime minister. He was the epitome of a Thatcherite minister, a grammar-school boy who worked his way to the top.
    10. The plan has been worked out under the auspices of the United Nations and is expected to be signed on Thursday.
    11. A gunman shot four people in a rampage through a hospital emergency room Saturday evening, and police worked to secure patients and staff from the marauder, a hospital official said.
    12. But Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, has worked for the past six years as a consultant to Northrop Corp. of California, a competitor of General Dynamics Corp.
    13. Born in Sekhukuneland in northern Transvaal on July 26 1924, the son of a migrant laborer, Motsoaledi worked in Johannesburg as a servant, and in boot and furniture factories.
    14. Striking workers at 10 San Francisco Bay area cemeteries said Sunday they would return to work Monday after accepting an agreement worked out with graveyard owners over the weekend.
    15. In the early '70s, he worked occasionally with organist Merl Saunders and Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
    16. After college, Davis joined General Foods and worked on the Country Time lemonade brand.
    17. Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
    18. President Bush said Thursday he will nominate Donald R. Quartel Jr., a consultant who has worked in Bush's political campaigns, to be a Federal Maritime commissioner.
    19. Ashland officials worked to settle the dispute for almost a decade.
    20. "I am very angry," said a rival U.S. tobacco company executive, who has worked to expand his company's sales and market share.
    21. For a year following the catastrophe, the Armenian ministry worked with Doctors Without Borders making an inventory of the drugs.
    22. She worked as a civil rights lawyer in Atlanta and later directed the New Haven Legal Assistance and was deputy director of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
    23. To calm those fears, Mr. Alberthal traveled to Washington to meet with executives of the unit's government systems group, where most of the eight executives who defected to Mr. Perot had worked.
    24. If so, unless they sell it, they will receive only a surrender value, which is worked out using a different set of calculations from the bonuses which make up the pay-outs on a conventional policy.
    25. Fortunately, it all worked out.
    26. She had previously worked with Bochco on the short-lived series about a minor-league baseball team, "Bay City Blues."
    27. His business background "distinguishes me as a person who had vision, who's worked very, very hard (and) who's been able to attract and motivate highly capable people," he said.
    28. Mr. Reso, a native of New Orleans, worked his way through a variety of engineering and planning jobs, held positions in Australia, and returned to the U.S.
    29. Pendleton said James worked "with several other Newark politicians" in pressuring Rodino to retire.
    30. "I believe," the three-term governor says, "that what has worked in Massachusetts and in New England can work in every state in the nation."
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