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La"bor (l&ā;"b&etilde_;r), n. [OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to take, Skr. labh to get, seize.] [Written also labour.] 1. 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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God hath set
Labor and rest, as day and night, to men
Successive. Milton.
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2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
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3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
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Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. Hooker.
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4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
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The queen's in labor,
They say, in great extremity; and feared
She'll with the labor end. Shak.
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5. Any pang or distress. Shak.
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6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 1771/7 acres. Bartlett.

8. (Mining.) A stope or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]
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Syn. -- Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry; painstaking. See Toll.
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La"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.] [Written also labour.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
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Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden. Milton.
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2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
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3. 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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The stone that labors up the hill. Granville.
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The line too labors, and the words move slow. Pope.
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To cure the disorder under which he labored. Sir W. Scott.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matt. xi. 28
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4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
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5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. Totten.
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La"bor, v. t. [F. labourer, L. laborare.] 1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
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The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children. W. Tooke.
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2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. “To labor arms for Troy.” Dryden.
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3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
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4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] Dryden.
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