Definition of labor

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

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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..
Delve :: Delve (v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge..
Inaction :: Inaction (n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.
Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not)..
Labor :: Labor (n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Emolument :: Emolument (n.) The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary..
Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth..
Inertia :: Inertia (n.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased..
Stillbirth :: Stillatory (a.) A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed.
Laborsome :: Laborsome (a.) Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence..
Longshoreman :: Longshoreman (n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels..
Turmoil :: Turmoil (n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..
Drudge :: Drudge (v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..
Labor :: Labor (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
Gain :: Gain (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living..
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..
Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..
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