desk work

Work at a desk, writing, copying; the work of a clerk. ( Tennyson.) děsk, v. t. [DESK, 8.] 1. To place or set at a desk. , fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, father "Then are you entertain'd and deskt up by Our Ladies Psalter and the rosary." John Hall: Poems (1646), p. 2. desmoncus "With this I'll read a leaf of that small Iliad, That in a walnut-shell was desked ." Albumazar , 1. 3. *děsked, pa . par . or a . [DESK, v.] děs-mạn, s . [Fr. & Sw.] Zool.: The Musk-rat (q. v.). děş-manth'-üs, s . IMG:content-2262.png:[blocks in formation] genera have the power of fixing themselves to ex- motion. Reproduction is ternal objects, and po e a feeble power of loco- IMG:content-2263.png:[blocks in formation]