Works

This term is generally understood to comprehend the fortifications about the body of a place; as by outworks are meant those without the first inclosure. The word is also used to signify the approaches of the besiegers, and the several lines, trenches, . made round a place, an army, or the like, for its security. To WORM a Gun , ( Décharger un canon avec la tire-bourre , Fr. ) To take out the charge of a firearm by means of a worm. Worm of a Gun , ( Tire-bourre , Fr. ) An instrument vermiculated or turned round, that serves to extract any thing into which it insinuates itself by means of a spiral direction. It is much the same as wad-hook, with this difference, that the one is more proper for small-arms, and the other for ordnance. To WORST . To defeat, to overthrow.