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Labor
LA'BOR, n. [L. labor, from labo, to fail.]
1. Exertion of muscular strength, or bodily exertion which occasions weariness; particularly, the exertion of the limbs in occupations by which subsistence is obtained, as in agriculture and manufactures, in distinction from exertions of strength in play or amusements, which are denominated exercise, rather than labor. Toilsome work; pains; travail; any bodily exertion which is attended with fatigue. After the labors of the day, the farmer retires, and rest is sweet. Moderate labor contributes to health.
What is obtained by labor will of right be the property of him by whose labor it is gained.
2. Intellectual exertion; application of the mind which occasions weariness; as the labor of compiling and writing a history.
3. Exertion of mental powers, united with bodily employment; as the labors of the apostles in propagating christianity.
4. Work done, or to be done; that which requires wearisome exertion.
Being a labor of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
5. Heroic achievement; as the labors of Hercules.
6. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
7. The evils of life; trials; persecution, etc.
They rest from their labors - Rev 14.
LA'BOR, v.i. [L. laboro.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to act or move with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work - Exo 20.
2. To exert one's powers of body or mind, or both, in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
Labor not for the meat which perisheth. John 6.
3. To toil; to be burdened.
Come unto me all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mat 11.
4. To move with difficulty.
The stone that labors up the hill.
5. To move irregularly with little progress; to pitch and roll heavily; as a ship in a turbulent sea.
6. To be in distress; to be pressed.
- As sounding cymbals aid the laboring moon.
7. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
8. To journey or march.
Make not all the people to labor thither. Josh 7.
9. To perform the duties of the pastoral office. 1 Tim 5.
10. To perform christian offices.
To labor under, to be afflicted with; to be burdened or distressed with; as, to labor under a disease or an affliction.
LA'BOR, v.t.
1. To work at; to till; to cultivate.
The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children.
2. To prosecute with effort; to urge; as, to labor a point or argument.
3. To form or fabricate with exertion; as, to labor arms for Troy.
4. To beat; to belabor. [The latter word is generally used.]
5. To form with toil and care; as a labored composition.
labor appears in definitions for these words:
Abridge Abstinence Accession Acquired Acquiring Adjudication Ado All Anagram Antimetabole Anxious Apron-man Arduous Arduously Artificial Assiduous Avail Awork Bate Beast Beat Bee Behemoth Belabor Bend Bore Breathless Burden Business Cash Cast Cattle Cease Cheap Childbed Childbirth Churl Clambering Climb Climbed Climber Co-operate Co-operation Collar Commonalty Commute Companion Compensate Consideration Cost Couch Cultivate Cultivator Culture Daily Daylabor Daywearied Deal Deserve Difficult Difficulty Dine Disqualification Disqualify Do Domestic Drag Dragged Dragging Drudge Drudgery Drudging Drudgingly Duty Earn Earned Earning Ease Easily Easy Economist Economy Editorial Elaborate Elaborated Elaborately Elaborateness Elaborating Emerods Employ Employment Encumber Encumbrance Endeavor Entitle Excess Excessive Exercise Exhausting Expend Expense Experiment Fabric Fabricate Facile Facilitate Fair Fall Fatigue Fatiguing Fatten Favorable Fellow-laborer Fervently Field Fine Flippant Forbid Force Forth Frown Full Gasp Geoponic Georgic Get Give Gleaner Glib Glide Good Gratuitously Hammer Handicraft Handiwork Harass Hard Hard-labored Harden Hardhanded Hardiness Hardly Hardness Hardship Harvest Harvest-man Harvester Haul Heave Heaves Heavily Heaviness Heavy Herculean Hew Hire Holyday Husbandman Idle Idleness Implement Imply Imposition Inaction Inactively Income Incumbrance Indefatigable Individual Indolence Indolent Indulge Ingenuity Intemperance Intemperate Intermission Inure Labor Laboratory Labored Laborer Laboring Laborious Laboriously Laboriousness Laborless Laborsome Lamprey Lapse Lassitude Lazy Leap Liberal Lie Liplabor Logarithm Loll Lose Loss Love-labored Lubricate Lug Luxurious Maintain Maintenance Manual Manure March Mass Mature Mechanic Merit Meritorious Mightily Militia Moil More Morning Morsel Mucker Muckworm Naturalize Needless Niceness Numb Occupy Offer On Opera Operose Operoseness Or Osteocope Overdo Overdone Overwork Overwrought Owing Pain Painful Painfully Painfulness Painstaker Painstaking Pant Part Patience Patient Peas-cod Penalty Penance Penitentiary Perform Persecution Piece Plantation Pleasure Plenty Plod Plodder Plodding Plow Plowman Political Preterlapsed Procure Product Productive Productiveness Profanation Profit Promise Property Punish Purchase Purchased Purpose Pussy Quilting Reach Reap Reaped Reaping Reclaim Recompense Reconcile Recourse Recreative Redemption Redress Redundance Reef-tackle Relapse Relax Remission Remunerate Research Respit Respited Respiting Rest Restif Return Review Reward Ride Round Row Ruin Sabbath Sabbath-breaking Sabbathless Sabbatic Sabbatism Sake Salary Scholasticism School Scrub Sea-boat Servant Serve Service Shorten Slack Slave Slaveish Slavery Slip Slope Sloth Smile Spell Spend Spontaneous Stair Stick Stillatory Stimulus Stint Strive Strong Struggle Studious Subsist Subtilization Suspension Sweat Sweaty Swink Swinker Tame Task Taskmaster Team-work Thrash Thrive Tiller Tire Tithe Toil Toiler Toiling Toilsome Toilsomeness Travail Travailing Trave Trouble Trudge Tug Tuggingly Turmoil Unable Unaffected Undertake Underwork Unearned Unfit Unfitness Unindustrious Unlabored Unlaborious Unnecessary Unproductive Unproductiveness Unprofitable Unstudied Untired Unused Unworking Unwrought Uphill Urge Vanity Vast Verge Versification Village Wade Wages Washy Waste Weariness Weary What Wildly Without Work Work-folk Worked Working Working-house Workman Workmanship Worry Worth Wrought Yield
Abridge Abstinence Accession Acquired Acquiring Adjudication Ado All Anagram Antimetabole Anxious Apron-man Arduous Arduously Artificial Assiduous Avail Awork Bate Beast Beat Bee Behemoth Belabor Bend Bore Breathless Burden Business Cash Cast Cattle Cease Cheap Childbed Childbirth Churl Clambering Climb Climbed Climber Co-operate Co-operation Collar Commonalty Commute Companion Compensate Consideration Cost Couch Cultivate Cultivator Culture Daily Daylabor Daywearied Deal Deserve Difficult Difficulty Dine Disqualification Disqualify Do Domestic Drag Dragged Dragging Drudge Drudgery Drudging Drudgingly Duty Earn Earned Earning Ease Easily Easy Economist Economy Editorial Elaborate Elaborated Elaborately Elaborateness Elaborating Emerods Employ Employment Encumber Encumbrance Endeavor Entitle Excess Excessive Exercise Exhausting Expend Expense Experiment Fabric Fabricate Facile Facilitate Fair Fall Fatigue Fatiguing Fatten Favorable Fellow-laborer Fervently Field Fine Flippant Forbid Force Forth Frown Full Gasp Geoponic Georgic Get Give Gleaner Glib Glide Good Gratuitously Hammer Handicraft Handiwork Harass Hard Hard-labored Harden Hardhanded Hardiness Hardly Hardness Hardship Harvest Harvest-man Harvester Haul Heave Heaves Heavily Heaviness Heavy Herculean Hew Hire Holyday Husbandman Idle Idleness Implement Imply Imposition Inaction Inactively Income Incumbrance Indefatigable Individual Indolence Indolent Indulge Ingenuity Intemperance Intemperate Intermission Inure Labor Laboratory Labored Laborer Laboring Laborious Laboriously Laboriousness Laborless Laborsome Lamprey Lapse Lassitude Lazy Leap Liberal Lie Liplabor Logarithm Loll Lose Loss Love-labored Lubricate Lug Luxurious Maintain Maintenance Manual Manure March Mass Mature Mechanic Merit Meritorious Mightily Militia Moil More Morning Morsel Mucker Muckworm Naturalize Needless Niceness Numb Occupy Offer On Opera Operose Operoseness Or Osteocope Overdo Overdone Overwork Overwrought Owing Pain Painful Painfully Painfulness Painstaker Painstaking Pant Part Patience Patient Peas-cod Penalty Penance Penitentiary Perform Persecution Piece Plantation Pleasure Plenty Plod Plodder Plodding Plow Plowman Political Preterlapsed Procure Product Productive Productiveness Profanation Profit Promise Property Punish Purchase Purchased Purpose Pussy Quilting Reach Reap Reaped Reaping Reclaim Recompense Reconcile Recourse Recreative Redemption Redress Redundance Reef-tackle Relapse Relax Remission Remunerate Research Respit Respited Respiting Rest Restif Return Review Reward Ride Round Row Ruin Sabbath Sabbath-breaking Sabbathless Sabbatic Sabbatism Sake Salary Scholasticism School Scrub Sea-boat Servant Serve Service Shorten Slack Slave Slaveish Slavery Slip Slope Sloth Smile Spell Spend Spontaneous Stair Stick Stillatory Stimulus Stint Strive Strong Struggle Studious Subsist Subtilization Suspension Sweat Sweaty Swink Swinker Tame Task Taskmaster Team-work Thrash Thrive Tiller Tire Tithe Toil Toiler Toiling Toilsome Toilsomeness Travail Travailing Trave Trouble Trudge Tug Tuggingly Turmoil Unable Unaffected Undertake Underwork Unearned Unfit Unfitness Unindustrious Unlabored Unlaborious Unnecessary Unproductive Unproductiveness Unprofitable Unstudied Untired Unused Unworking Unwrought Uphill Urge Vanity Vast Verge Versification Village Wade Wages Washy Waste Weariness Weary What Wildly Without Work Work-folk Worked Working Working-house Workman Workmanship Worry Worth Wrought Yield
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