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labor
(mass) | labor
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Labor
(gcide) | Labor \La"bor\ (l[=a]"b[~e]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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Labor
(gcide) | Labor \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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Labor
(gcide) | Labor \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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labor
(devil) | LABOR, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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LABOR
(bouvier) | LABOR. Continued operation; work.
2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership,
and valued as equal to the capital of another.
3. When business has been done for another, and suit is brought to
recover a just reward, there is generally contained in the declaration, a
count for work and labor.
4. Where penitentiaries exist, persons who have committed crimes are
condemned to be imprisoned therein at labor.
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collaborate
(mass) | collaborate
- spolupracovať |
collaboration
(mass) | collaboration
- spolupráca |
elaborate
(mass) | elaborate
- vypracovať |
labor
(mass) | labor
- práca, námaha, namáhať sa |
labored
(mass) | labored
- namáhavý, ťažký |
A labor of love
(gcide) | Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin
to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh
to be lustful. See Lief.]
1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which
delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or
devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love
of brothers and sisters.
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Of all the dearest bonds we prove
Thou countest sons' and mothers' love
Most sacred, most Thine own. --Keble.
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2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate
affection for, one of the opposite sex.
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He on his side
Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamored. --Milton.
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3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e.,
to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
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Demetrius . . .
Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
And won her soul. --Shak.
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4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or
desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often
with of and an object.
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Love, and health to all. --Shak.
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Smit with the love of sacred song. --Milton.
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The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
--Fenton.
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5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.
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Keep yourselves in the love of God. --Jude 21.
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6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing
address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest
love was reading. "Trust me, love." --Dryden.
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Open the temple gates unto my love. --Spenser.
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7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
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Such was his form as painters, when they show
Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. --Dryden.
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Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
--Shak.
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8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle.
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9. (Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis ({Clematis
Vitalba}).
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10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in
counting score at tennis, etc.
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He won the match by three sets to love. --The
Field.
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11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.
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Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in
most of which the meaning is very obvious; as,
love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked,
love-taught, etc.
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A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard
for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself,
without expectation of reward.
Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one
of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See
Free love.
Free lover, one who avows or practices free love.
In love, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of
the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.
Love apple (Bot.), the tomato.
Love bird (Zool.), any one of several species of small,
short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus
Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from
Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are
celebrated for the affection which they show for their
mates.
Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between
lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak.
Love charm, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton.
Love child. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen.
Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable
adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
--Chaucer.
Love drink, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer.
Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love.
Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some
religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists,
in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians.
Love feat, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak.
Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished
person or party does not score a point.
Love grass. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus
Eragrostis.
Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.)
(a) An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena)
having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut
bracts.
(b) The West Indian Passiflora f[oe]tida, which has
similar bracts.
Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.
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A little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;
And maidens call it love-in-idleness. --Shak.
Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
--Shak.
Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from
being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual
affection. --Milman.
Love lass, a sweetheart.
Love letter, a letter of courtship. --Shak.
Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth
(Amarantus melancholicus).
Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone.
Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love,
or venereal desire.
Love rites, sexual intercourse. --Pope
Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the
stage.
Love suit, courtship. --Shak.
Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means.
[Obs.] "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back
again." --Holinshed.
The god of love, or The Love god, Cupid.
To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a
euphemism.
To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. "If you
will marry, make your loves to me." --Shak.
To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without
stakes. "A game at piquet for love." --Lamb.
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Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness;
delight.
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arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome
(gcide) | effortful \effortful\ adj.
1. requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.
[Narrower terms: {arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking,
grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome}; {exhausting,
tiring, wearing, wearying}] Also See: difficult, hard.
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Belabor
(gcide) | Belabor \Be*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belabored; p. pr. &
vb. n. Belaboring.]
1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth
is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." --Barrow.
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2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
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Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. --Dryden.
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Belabored
(gcide) | Belabor \Be*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belabored; p. pr. &
vb. n. Belaboring.]
1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth
is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." --Barrow.
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2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
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Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. --Dryden.
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Belaboring
(gcide) | Belabor \Be*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belabored; p. pr. &
vb. n. Belaboring.]
1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth
is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." --Barrow.
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2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
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Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. --Dryden.
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Colaborer
(gcide) | Colaborer \Co*la"bor*er\, n.
One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
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collaborate
(gcide) | collaborate \col*lab"o*rate\, v. i.
1. to work together with another toward a common goal,
especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists
collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three
authors collaborated in writing the book.
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2. to willingly cooperate with an enemy, especially an enemy
nation occupying one's own country.
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Collaborateur
(gcide) | Collaborateur \Col*la`bo*ra*teur"\, n. [F.]
See Collaborator.
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Collaboration
(gcide) | Collaboration \Col*lab`o*ra"tion\, n.
1. The act of working together; united labor.
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2. the act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially
an enemy nation occupying one's own country.
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collaborationist
(gcide) | collaborationist \collaborationist\ n.
someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force.
Syn: collaborator, quisling.
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collaborative
(gcide) | collaborative \col*lab"o*rat*ive\, a.
accomplished by collaboration; cooperative; as, collaborative
effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to
competitive.
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collaborator
(gcide) | collaborator \col*lab"o*ra`tor\, n. [L. collaborare to labor
together; col- + laborare to labor: cf. F. collaborateur.]
1. An associate in labor, especially in literary or
scientific labor.
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2. one who willingly cooperates with an enemy, especially an
enemy nation occupying one's own country.
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Day-labor
(gcide) | Day-labor \Day"-la`bor\, n.
Labor hired or performed by the day. --Milton.
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Day-laborer
(gcide) | Day-laborer \Day"-la`bor*er\, n.
One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm
laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular
trade. --Goldsmith.
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Elaborate
(gcide) | Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See
Labor.]
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
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Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.
Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
-- E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv. -- E*lab"o*rate*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
1. To produce with labor
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They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young.
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2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with
labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to
elaborate a painting or a literary work.
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The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
--Arbuthnot.
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Elaborated
(gcide) | Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
1. To produce with labor
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They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young.
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2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with
labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to
elaborate a painting or a literary work.
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The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
--Arbuthnot.
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Elaborately
(gcide) | Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See
Labor.]
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
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Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.
Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
-- E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv. -- E*lab"o*rate*ness, n.
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Elaborateness
(gcide) | Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See
Labor.]
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
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Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.
Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
-- E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv. -- E*lab"o*rate*ness, n.
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Elaborating
(gcide) | Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
1. To produce with labor
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They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young.
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2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with
labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to
elaborate a painting or a literary work.
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The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
--Arbuthnot.
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Elaboration
(gcide) | Elaboration \E*lab`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F.
['e]laboration.]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor;
improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or
assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals
and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into
something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food
into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
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Elaborative
(gcide) | Elaborative \E*lab"o*ra*tive\, a.
Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and
minute attention to details.
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Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of
discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of,
or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
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Elaborative faculty
(gcide) | Elaborative \E*lab"o*ra*tive\, a.
Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and
minute attention to details.
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Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of
discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of,
or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
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Elaborator
(gcide) | Elaborator \E*lab"o*ra`tor\, n.
One who, or that which, elaborates.
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elaboratory
(gcide) | Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. Laboratories. [Shortened
fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See
Elaborate, Labor.] [Formerly written also elaboratory.]
1. The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to
experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a
chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by
extension, a place where something is prepared, or some
operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of
the bile.
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2. Hence: Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a
scientific laboratory[1], especially in being conducive to
learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic
observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where
different new policies may be tested prior to adoption
throughout the country.
[PJC]Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, a.
Tending to elaborate.
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A laboratory. [Obs.]
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Elaboratory
(gcide) | Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. Laboratories. [Shortened
fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See
Elaborate, Labor.] [Formerly written also elaboratory.]
1. The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to
experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a
chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by
extension, a place where something is prepared, or some
operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of
the bile.
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2. Hence: Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a
scientific laboratory[1], especially in being conducive to
learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic
observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where
different new policies may be tested prior to adoption
throughout the country.
[PJC]Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, a.
Tending to elaborate.
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A laboratory. [Obs.]
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Free labor
(gcide) | Free \Free\ (fr[=e]), a. [Compar. Freer (-[~e]r); superl.
Freest (-[e^]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre['o], fr[imac];
akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[imac], G. frei, Icel.
fr[imac], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija
beloved, dear, fr. pr[imac] to love, Goth. frij[=o]n. Cf.
Affray, Belfry, Friday, Friend, Frith inclosure.]
1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's
own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's
own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
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That which has the power, or not the power, to
operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
--Locke.
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2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and
defended by them from encroachments upon natural or
acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
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3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
of parents, guardian, or master.
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4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
liberated; at liberty to go.
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Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior.
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5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
of the will.
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Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
--Milton.
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6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.
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7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
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He was free only with a few. --Milward.
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8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
bad sense.
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The critics have been very free in their censures.
--Felton.
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A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
--Shelley.
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9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
as, free with his money.
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10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --
followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
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Princes declaring themselves free from the
obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet.
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11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
easy.
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12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
spirited; as, a free horse.
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13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
rights; -- followed by of.
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He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm. --Dryden.
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14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,
engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to
be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
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Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you? --Shak.
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15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
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16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
individual rights against encroachment by any person or
class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a
government, institutions, etc.
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17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of
base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.
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18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
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19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
carbonic acid gas; free cells.
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Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.
Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold
lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and
gunwale.
Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.
Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg.
Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the
jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]
--Bouvier.
Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or
statical condition; free electricity.
Free church.
(a) A church whose sittings are for all and without
charge.
(b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of
Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
government in spiritual matters.
Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in
its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
Hanseatic league.
Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.
Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways."
--W. Black.
Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty.
Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
that of slaves.
Free port. (Com.)
(a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free
of custom duty.
(b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from
ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.
Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a
brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.
Free school.
(a) A school to which pupils are admitted without
discrimination and on an equal footing.
(b) A school supported by general taxation, by
endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for
tuition; a public school.
Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were
not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
of money, etc. --Burrill.
Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain
services which, though honorable, were not military.
--Abbott.
Free States, those of the United States before the Civil
War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
existed.
Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
Free thought, that which is thought independently of the
authority of others.
Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
regulations.
Free trader, one who believes in free trade.
To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's
self to. [Colloq.]
To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in
as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
wind.
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Hard-labored
(gcide) | Hard-labored \Hard"-la`bored\ (h[aum]rd"l[=a]`b[~e]rd), a.
Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. --Swift.
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Inelaborate
(gcide) | Inelaborate \In`e*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. inelaboratus. See In-
not, and Elaborate.]
Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude;
unfinished.
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Knights of labor
(gcide) | Knight \Knight\, n. [OE. knight, cniht, knight, soldier, AS.
cniht, cneoht, a boy, youth, attendant, military follower;
akin to D. & G. knecht servant; perh. akin to E. kin.]
1. A young servant or follower; a military attendant. [Obs.]
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2.
(a) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback
and admitted to a certain military rank with special
ceremonies, including an oath to protect the
distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless
life.
(b) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of
baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him
to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. [Eng.] Hence:
(c) A champion; a partisan; a lover. "Give this ring to my
true knight." Shak "In all your quarrels will I be
your knight." --Tennyson.
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Knights, by their oaths, should right poor
ladies' harms. --Shak.
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Note: Formerly, when a knight's name was not known, it was
customary to address him as Sir Knight. The rank of a
knight is not hereditary.
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3. A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a
horse's head.
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4. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave
or jack. [Obs.]
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Carpet knight. See under Carpet.
Knight of industry. See Chevalier d'industrie, under
Chevalier.
Knight of Malta, Knight of Rhodes, {Knight of St. John of
Jerusalem}. See Hospitaler.
Knight of the post, one who gained his living by giving
false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper
in general. --Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth
he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you
anything for twelve pence." --Nash.
Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives
of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the
representatives of cities and boroughs.
Knights commanders, Knights grand cross, different
classes of the Order of the Bath. See under Bath, and
Companion.
Knights of labor, a secret organization whose professed
purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen
as respects their relations to their employers. [U. S.]
Knights of Pythias, a secret order, founded in Washington,
D. C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes.
Knights of the Round Table, knights belonging to an order
which, according to the legendary accounts, was instituted
by the mythical King Arthur. They derived their common
title from the table around which they sat on certain
solemn days. --Brande & C.
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Labor
(gcide) | Labor \La"bor\ (l[=a]"b[~e]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.
[1913 Webster]Labor \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.
[1913 Webster]Labor \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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Labor Day
(gcide) | Labor Day \Labor Day\
In most of the States and Territories of the United States, a
day, usually the first Monday of September, set aside as a
legal holiday, in honor of, or in the interest of, workingmen
as a class. Also, a similar holiday in Canada, Australia,
etc.
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Laborant
(gcide) | Laborant \Lab"o*rant\, n. [L. laborans, p. pr. of laborare to
labor.]
A chemist. [Obs.] --Boyle.
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Laboratories
(gcide) | Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. Laboratories. [Shortened
fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See
Elaborate, Labor.] [Formerly written also elaboratory.]
1. The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to
experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a
chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by
extension, a place where something is prepared, or some
operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of
the bile.
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2. Hence: Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a
scientific laboratory[1], especially in being conducive to
learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic
observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where
different new policies may be tested prior to adoption
throughout the country.
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Laboratory
(gcide) | Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. Laboratories. [Shortened
fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See
Elaborate, Labor.] [Formerly written also elaboratory.]
1. The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to
experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a
chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by
extension, a place where something is prepared, or some
operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of
the bile.
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2. Hence: Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a
scientific laboratory[1], especially in being conducive to
learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic
observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where
different new policies may be tested prior to adoption
throughout the country.
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Labored
(gcide) | Labored \La"bored\, a.
1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought;
not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
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2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.
Syn: heavy, laboured.
[WordNet 1.5]Labor \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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Laboredly
(gcide) | Laboredly \La"bored*ly\, adv.
In a labored manner; with labor.
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Laborer
(gcide) | Laborer \La"bor*er\, n. [Written also labourer.]
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does
work that requires strength rather than skill, as
distinguished from that of an artisan.
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Laboring
(gcide) | Labor \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.
[1913 Webster]Laboring \La"bor*ing\, a.
1. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse,
heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor;
as, laboring days.
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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. --Eccl. v. 12.
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2. Suffering pain or grief. --Pope.
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Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and
exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull,
the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.
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Laboring oar
(gcide) | Laboring \La"bor*ing\, a.
1. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse,
heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor;
as, laboring days.
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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. --Eccl. v. 12.
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2. Suffering pain or grief. --Pope.
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Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and
exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull,
the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.
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Laborious
(gcide) | Laborious \La*bo"ri*ous\, a. [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor:
cf. F. laborieux.]
1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome;
tiresome.
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Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
--Addison.
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2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious
mechanic.
[1913 Webster] -- La*bo"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
La*bo"ri*ous*ness, n.
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Laboriously
(gcide) | Laborious \La*bo"ri*ous\, a. [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor:
cf. F. laborieux.]
1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome;
tiresome.
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Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
--Addison.
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2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious
mechanic.
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La*bo"ri*ous*ness, n.
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Laboriousness
(gcide) | Laborious \La*bo"ri*ous\, a. [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor:
cf. F. laborieux.]
1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome;
tiresome.
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Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
--Addison.
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2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious
mechanic.
[1913 Webster] -- La*bo"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
La*bo"ri*ous*ness, n.
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Laborless
(gcide) | Laborless \La"bor*less\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r*l[e^]s), a.
Not involving labor; not laborious; easy.
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Laborous
(gcide) | Laborous \La"bor*ous\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r*[u^]s), a.
Laborious. [Obs.] --Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Elyot.
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Laborously
(gcide) | Laborous \La"bor*ous\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r*[u^]s), a.
Laborious. [Obs.] --Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Elyot.
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Labor-saving
(gcide) | Labor-saving \La"bor-sav`ing\, a.
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of
men; designed to replace or conserve human and especially
manual labor; as, labor-saving machinery; labor-saving
appliances[4]; labor-saving devices like washing machines.
Syn: laborsaving.
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Laborsome
(gcide) | Laborsome \La"bor*some\, a.
1. Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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2. (Naut.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in
a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor.
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Lip labor
(gcide) | Lip \Lip\ (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G.
lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l[aum]pp, L.
labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.]
1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of
the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips
are organs of speech essential to certain articulations.
Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the
organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
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Thine own lips testify against thee. --Job xv. 6.
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2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything;
a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
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3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
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4. (Bot.)
(a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate
corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the
Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
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5. (Zool.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve
shell.
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6. Impudent or abusive talk; as, don't give me any of your
lip. [Slang]
Syn: jaw.
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Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger.
Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only.
Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only.
Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale.
Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one
speaking by watching the motion of his lips without
hearing his voice. --Carpenter.
Lip salve, a salve for sore lips.
Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and
devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such
sentiments.
Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by
experience.
Lip work.
(a) Talk.
(b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson.
To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or
contempt. --Shak.
To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by
protruding the lip.
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manual labor
(gcide) | manual labor \manual labor\, manual labour \manual labour\n.
Labor done with the hands.
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manual laborer
(gcide) | manual laborer \manual laborer\ n.
A person who works with the hands, rather than with the mind.
Syn: laborer, labourer.
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migrant laborer
(gcide) | Migrant \Mi"grant\, n.
1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal.
2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of
employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting
crops seasonally; also called migrant laborer or
migrant worker. Sometimes the migrant worker is not a
resident of the country in which the work is performed.
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Outlabor
(gcide) | Outlabor \Out*la"bor\, v. t.
To surpass in laboring.
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Overlabor
(gcide) | Overlabor \O`ver*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overlabored; p.
pr. & vb. n. Overlaboring.]
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1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. --Dryden.
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2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
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Overlabored
(gcide) | Overlabor \O`ver*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overlabored; p.
pr. & vb. n. Overlaboring.]
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1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. --Dryden.
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2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
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Overlaboring
(gcide) | Overlabor \O`ver*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overlabored; p.
pr. & vb. n. Overlaboring.]
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1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. --Dryden.
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2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
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Statute labor
(gcide) | Statute \Stat"ute\ (-[-u]t), n. [F. statut, LL. statutum, from
L. statutus, p. p. of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr.
status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See
Stand, and cf. Constitute, Destitute.]
1. An act of the legislature of a state or country,
declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a
positive law; the written will of the legislature
expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; --
used in distinction from common law. See Common law,
under Common, a. --Bouvier.
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Note: Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a
legislative body consisting of representatives. In
monarchies, the laws of the sovereign are called
edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc. In works
on international law and in the Roman law, the term is
used as embracing all laws imposed by competent
authority. Statutes in this sense are divided into
statutes real, statutes personal, and statutes mixed;
statutes real applying to immovables; statutes personal
to movables; and statutes mixed to both classes of
property.
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2. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a
permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
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3. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by
statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also
statute fair. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. --Halliwell.
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Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts.
--Blackstone.
Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because
enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf
of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above.
Statute labor, a definite amount of labor required for the
public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in
certain English colonies.
Statute merchant (Eng. Law), a bond of record pursuant to
the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on
which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be
awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor,
and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the
rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; --
called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into
disuse. --Tomlins. --Bouvier.
Statute mile. See under Mile.
Statute of limitations (Law), a statute assigning a certain
time, after which rights can not be enforced by action.
Statute staple, a bond of record acknowledged before the
mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may,
on nonpayment, forthwith have execution against the body,
lands, and goods of the debtor, as in the statute
merchant. It is now disused. --Blackstone.
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Syn: Act; regulation; edict; decree. See Law.
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Underlaborer
(gcide) | Underlaborer \Un"der*la`bor*er\, n.
An assistant or subordinate laborer. --Locke.
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Unelaborate
(gcide) | Unelaborate \Unelaborate\
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Unlabored
(gcide) | Unlabored \Un*la"bored\, a.
1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests."
--Dryden.
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2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field.
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3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an
unlabored style or work. --Tickell.
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Unlaboring
(gcide) | Unlaboring \Unlaboring\
See laboring. |
Unlaborious
(gcide) | Unlaborious \Unlaborious\
See laborious. |
labor
(devil) | LABOR, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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HARD LABOR
(bouvier) | HARD LABOR, punishment. In those states where the penitentiary system has
been adopted, convicts who are to be imprisoned, as part of their
punishment, are sentenced to perform hard labor. This labor is not greater
than many freemen perform voluntarily, and the quantity required to be
performed is not at all unreasonable. In the penitentiaries of Pennsylvania
it consists in being employed in weaving, shoemaking, and such like
employments.
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LABOR
(bouvier) | LABOR. Continued operation; work.
2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership,
and valued as equal to the capital of another.
3. When business has been done for another, and suit is brought to
recover a just reward, there is generally contained in the declaration, a
count for work and labor.
4. Where penitentiaries exist, persons who have committed crimes are
condemned to be imprisoned therein at labor.
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WORK AND LABOR
(bouvier) | WORK AND LABOR. In actions of assumpsit, it is usual to put in a count,
commonly called a common count, for work and labor done, and materials
furnished by the plaintiff for the defendant; and when the work was not done
under a special contract, the plaintiff will be entitled to recover on the
common count for work, labor, and materials. 4 Tyr. R. 43; 2 C. & M. 214.
Vide Assumpsit; Quantum meruit.
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