| Labor (labor) |
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| n. | (l "b r) |
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| La"bor |
| [OE.
labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F.
labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to
take, Skr. labh to get, seize.] [Written also labour.] |
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.
Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as,
the labor of compiling a history.
That which requires hard work for its
accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Travail; the pangs and efforts of
childbirth.
Any pang or distress.
The pitching or tossing of
a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and
rigging.
A measure of land in Mexico and
Texas, equivalent to an area of 177***frac17] acres.
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To exert muscular
strength] to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly
in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
To exert one's powers of mind in the
prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
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.
To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of
childbirth.
To pitch or roll heavily,
as a ship in a turbulent sea.
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To work at; to work; to
till; to cultivate by toil.
To form or fabricate with toil, exertion,
or care.
To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to
urge strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
To belabor; to beat.
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A
stope or set of stopes.
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