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 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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