3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
WORKING
Work"ing,
Defn: 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.
WORKING-DAY
Work"ing-day, a.
Defn: 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.
WORKINGMAN
Work"ing*man, n.; pl. Workingmen (.
Defn: A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
WORKLESS
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.