Labor

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any pang or distress.

II. Labor ·add. ·noun A store or set of stopes.

III. Labor ·noun Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

IV. Labor ·vt To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.

V. Labor ·noun To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

VI. Labor ·noun To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

VII. Labor ·vt To Belabor; to Beat.

VIII. Labor ·noun Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

IX. Labor ·noun A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.

X. Labor ·noun That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

XI. Labor ·noun The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

XII. Labor ·vt To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.

XIII. Labor ·vt To work at; to Work; to Till; to cultivate by toil.

XIV. Labor ·noun To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to Strive; to take pains.

XV. Labor ·noun To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to Work; to Toil.

XVI. Labor ·noun To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened;

— often with under, and formerly with of.

XVII. Labor ·noun Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.

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