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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Servant :: Servant (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper..
Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..
Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving..
Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
Moither :: Moither (v. i.) To toil; to labor.
Workman :: Workman (n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently..
Lychnobite :: Lychnobite (n.) One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.
Drudge :: Drudge (v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Fatigue :: Fatigue (n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war..
Slavish :: Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great..
Overlook :: Overlook (v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter..
Fabricate :: Fabricate (v. t.) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens..
Gleaner :: Gleaner (n.) One who gathers slowly with labor.
Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
Unstudied :: Unstudied (a.) Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural.
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.
Reap :: Reap (v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions..
Toilful :: Toilful (a.) Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care..
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