- (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
- (n.) Any pang or distress.
- (n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
- (n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
- (v.t.) To belabor; to beat.
- (n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
- (v.t.) To prosecute or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
- (v.t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion or care.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- (n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
- (v.t.) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
- (n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- (n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- (n.) A store or set of stopes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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