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▪ I. wark, warch, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|wɑːk|, |wɑːtʃ|
Forms: 1 wærc, 3 warche, 5 werk(e, 5–6 warke, 7 warck, 7– warch, 9 wark.
[OE. wærc masc. = ON. verk-r (Sw. värk pain, Da. værk gout, rheumatism):—OTeut. *warki-z, from the same root as *werko-m work n.
With the dial. variation between the types wark and warch cf. the similar variation in ME. between like and liche (like a.). The form wark may be partly due to ON. verkr.]
A pain, an ache.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xix. (1890) 322 Seo readnis & bryne þæs swiles & wærces. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 318 Wiþ maᵹan wærce wyl pic on cu meolce. a1225Ancr. R. 326 Þet he ne mei..speken ase he schulde, bute gronen uor his eche [MS. T. warche]. a1400–50Wars Alex. 2811 As warysche I my warke [MS. Dubl. werk] þat I am in wonden. 14..Medical Receipts in Rel. Ant. I. 51 For evel and werke in bledder: take ache, percel [etc.]. c1440Alphabet of Tales 265 Furth-with a grete warke went þurgh his hand. 1570Levins Manip. 32/1 Warke, ache, dolor. 1613Potts Discov. Witches T 3 b, Hee hath beene sore pained with great warch in his bones. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Wark..a pain or ache. ‘The belly wark.’ 1862[C. C. Robinson] Dial. Leeds s.v., Gotten t' back-wark, shoother-wark, leg-wark..—ne'er wur so done up i' my life.
▪ II. † wark, n.2 Obs.
Also 8 werk.
[Of obscure origin.]
(See quots.)
1707Sloane Jamaica I. Pref. B 2 b, I know not but that the several Species of new Ferns..may be discover'd upon some of the Stones or Slates called Werk, which lie in plenty in the Strata over the Cole-pits in many Places of England. 1759B. Martin Nat. Hist. I. 68 In several of the Coal Pits of this Country [Somerset], the Veins are covered with a Shell of hard, and stony Substance called Wark, which splits like Slate, but is much more brittle.
▪ III. wark, warch, v. Obs. exc. dial.|wɑːk|, |wɑːtʃ|
Forms: 1 wærcan, 3 warche, 5 werk, 6 warke, 7 warck, 7, 9 warch, 5– wark.
[OE. wærcan = ON. verkja, virkja:—OTeut. *werkjan, f. *werki-z: see wark n.1]
intr. To ache, suffer pain; to throb painfully. (In OE. impers. with accus., like L. dolet.)
a1000Sax. Leechd. II. 272 Ᵹif hine innan wærce ᵹenim niᵹes ealað amber fulne [etc.]. Ibid. 318. a 1225 Ancr. R. 368 Leste hor heaued aeke [MS. T. warche]. c1440Promp. Parv. 523/1 Werkyn', and akyn' as a soore lymme, doleo, indoleo. c1440Alphabet of Tales 100 Yit it was a grete mervayle, for for all þis, nowder warkid hur hevud, nor sho lefte not þe labur of hur handis. c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 269 My bonys ar so stark, No wonder if thay wark, ffor I am full old. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 1581, I wolde hauke whylest my hede dyd warke. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 77 For laik of quhilks my heid dois wark and ȝaik. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words, Warch, or Wark, to ake, to work. 1828Carr Craven Gloss. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss. s.v., My corns warchen. 1881J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 50 (Cumbld. Gloss.) Me heid warkt as it had niver warkt afooar.
Hence ˈwarking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1340Hampole Ps. xxxvii. 2 Þin arues ere festid in me: þat is, þi vengaunce, as werkyngis of body and saule. c1400Destr. Troy 1238 The souerayn..the kyng with the caupe caste to þe ground, With a warchand wounde thurgh his wedis all. Ibid. 10035. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 523/1 Werkynge, or heede ake, cephalia. c1460Towneley Myst. vi. 8, I haue maide me, in this strete, sore bonys & warkand feete. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 732 Thai..Wrocht the Sotheroun mony werkand wound. Ibid. 858. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. ii. 157 Nocht long eftir, throuch the warking woundes that in the battel he receiuet, he dies. Ibid. II. x. 397.
▪ IV. wark
obs. and dial. form of work n. and v. |