[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

labor \la"bor\ l=a"b~er, 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.
      1913 webster

            god hath set
            labor and rest, as day and night, to men
            successive.                           --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
      compiling a history.
      1913 webster

   3. that which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
      which demands effort.
      1913 webster

            being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
            performance thereof we may rather wish than look
            for.                                  --hooker.
      1913 webster

   4. travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
      1913 webster

            the queen's in labor,
            they say, in great extremity; and feared
            she'll with the labor end.            --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. any pang or distress. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. naut. the pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
      in the straining of timbers and rigging.
      1913 webster

   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.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   syn: work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
        painstaking. see toll.
        1913 webster
see also:
labour toll 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

            adam, well may we labor still to dress
            this garden.                          --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
      design; to strive; to take pains.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            the stone that labors up the hill.    --granville.
      1913 webster

            the line too labors, and the words move slow.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

            to cure the disorder under which he labored. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
      1913 webster

            come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
            and i will give you rest.             --matt. xi. 28
      1913 webster

   4. to be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
      in labor.
      1913 webster

   5. naut. to pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
      sea. --totten.
      1913 webster
see also:
labored laboring labor labour 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

labour \la"bour\, n.
   same as labor; -- british spelling. chiefly brit.
   pjc
see also:
labor 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

labour
     n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
          for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
          field" syn: labor, working class, proletariat
     2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
        the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
        syn: parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail,
         childbed
     3: a political party formed in great britain in 1900;
        characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
        the socialization of key industries syn: labour party,
        labor party, labor
     4: productive work especially physical work done for wages;
        "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" syn: labor,
         toil
     v 1: work hard; "she was digging away at her math homework";
          "lexicographers drudge all day long" syn: labor, toil,
           fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
     2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "she tugged for
        years to make a decent living"; "we have to push a little
        to make the deadline"; "she is driving away at her
        doctoral thesis" syn: tug, labor, push, drive
     3: undergo the efforts of childbirth syn: labor
see also:
labor working class proletariat parturiency confinement lying-in 
travail childbed labour party labor party labor 
toil fag grind drudge dig 
moil tug push drive 

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