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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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Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
compiling a history. |
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That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
which demands effort. |
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Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. |
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Any pang or distress. |
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The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the
straining of timbers and rigging. |
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A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area
of 177/ 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. |
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To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains. |
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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. |
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To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. |
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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. |
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To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. |
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To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge
stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument. |
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To belabor; to beat. |
