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