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worked, ppl. a.|wɜːkt|
[f. work v. + -ed1.]
1. Used for farm-work.
1707Mortimer Husb. 170 An old worked Ox fatting as well, and being as good Meat as a young one.
2. Executed or ornamented with needlework, engraving, or the like.
1740E. Montagu Corr. (1906) I. 47, I desire you to send me up my worked facing and robing. 1746–7Mrs. Delany Autobiogr. (1861) II. 447 In my Irish green damask and my worked head. 1816Scott Old Mort. xl, The worked-worsted chairs. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xxx, She turned the watch upon the table, and..looked at the worked letters within. 1884E. Yates Recoll. I. 181 Elaborately dressed, with a worked shirt-front and huge white waistcoat.
3. Shaped, fashioned, or dressed for use or ornament.
1864J. Hunt tr. Vogt's Lect. Man x. 288 He reports that he has found..worked flints at a depth of twelve feet in a stratified soil. 1892Archaeologia LIV. 110 Many fragments of worked bone and horn were discovered.
4. In various senses: Contrived, managed, conducted, etc.; Hort. grafted.
1848W. Paul Rose Gard. 106 When potting worked plants, we should have an eye to suckers from the wild stock. 1882F. E. Hulme (title) Worked Examination Questions in Plane Geometrical Drawing. 1886Col. Maurice Lett. fr. Donegal 4 A cleverly-worked intrigue. 1904Westm. Gaz. 1 June 12/1 ‘Leased’ or ‘worked’ lines.
5. With advs., as worked-off, worked-out, worked-up (see the corresponding senses of the verb).
1770Luckombe Hist. Printing 360 He grasps off the Worked off Heap so much at once..as he can well govern. 1831P. Egan Show Folks 41 Like a well-worked up scene on the stage. 1864‘Mark Twain’ in Californian Nov. 5 We admire his mature judgment in selling out of a worked-out mine. 1882Rep. Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 641 The worked-out space becomes more or less filled with bowlders. 1893Helps to Study of Bible 269 Some old worked-out mines. 1903Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 3/3 The worked-up feelings of a personal witness of these scenes. 1908Stage Year Bk. 21 An ingeniously conceived and vigorously worked-out spectacle play. |