Definition of labor

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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..

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Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..
Fagging :: Fagging (n.) Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school..
Forswonk :: Forswonk (a.) Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.
Lumper :: Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
Tommy :: Tommy (n.) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money..
Tasker :: Tasker (n.) A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
Labor :: Labor (v. t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care..
Labor :: Labor (n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Moil :: Moil (v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Laboratories :: Laboratories (pl. ) of Laborator.
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice..
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught..
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow..
Present :: Present (v. i.) To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.
Service :: Service (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love..
Force :: Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor..
Travel :: Travel (n.) Labor; parturition; travail.
Disqualification :: Disqualification (n.) That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor..
Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm..
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