LABOR

LABOR. → General scriptures concerning Ge 3:19; Ex 20:9-11; 23:12; 34:21; Le 19:13; De 24:14,15; 25:4; Ec 5:12; Jer 22:13; Mal 3:5; Mt 20:1-15; Lu 10:7; Ac 20:35; 1Co 9:9; Eph 4:28; 1Th 4:11,12; 2Th 3:7-13; 1Ti 5:18; Jas 5:4 → See EMPLOYEE → See EMPLOYER → See IDLENESS → See INDUSTRY → See MASTER → See SERVANT

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labor. Labor, n. pains, toil, work, childbirth

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La″bor (lā″bẽr), n. [[OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. λαμβάνειν to take, Skr. labh to get, seize.]] [Written also labour.] 1. 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.
God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton. 2. 2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
3. 3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. Hooker. 4. 4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She'll with the labor end. Shak. 5. 5. Any pang or distress. Shak.
6. 6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
7. 7. [] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177⅟₇ acres. Bartlett.
Syn. — Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry; painstaking. See Toll.