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.

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

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.

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

Confused with working sands and rolling waves. Addison.

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

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

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.

He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir W. Raleigh.

Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill. Harte.

So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains
Of rushing torrents and descending rains,
Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines,
Till by degrees the floating mirror shines. Addison.

Knowledge in building and working ships. Arbuthnot.

Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof;
Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve. Addison.

The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do. Coleridge.

To work a passage (Naut.), to pay for a passage by doing work. -- To work double tides (Naut.), to perform the labor of three days in two; -- a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day. -- To work in, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. -- To work into, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. -- To work off, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting. -- To work out. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Phil. ii. 12. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.]

Tears of joy for your returning spilt,
Work out and expiate our former guilt. Dryden.

(c) To solve, as a problem. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working. -- To work up. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage.

The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads,
Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. Addison.

(b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. R. H. Dana, Jr.

Energy is the capacity of doing work. . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. Clerk Maxwell.