Definition of labor

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Labor (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

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Commentation :: Commentation (n.) The result of the labors of a commentator.
Hew :: Hew (v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher..
Travail :: Travail (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Labor :: Labor (v. t.) To belabor; to beat.
Finish :: Finish (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc..
Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer..
Navvy :: Navvy (n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc..
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery..
Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..
Cross-birth :: Cross-birth (n.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus..
Elaboratory :: Elaboratory (a.) Tending to elaborate.
Fag :: Fag (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Overlabored :: Overlabored (imp. & p. p.) of Overlabo.
Nice :: Nice (superl.) Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy..
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through..
Toil :: Toil (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body..
Motet :: Motet (n.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
Weary :: Weary (v. t.) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling..
While :: While (n.) That which requires time; labor; pains.
Workfolk :: Workfolk (n.) People that labor.
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