productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
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An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
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An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
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Alt. of Breeze fly
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A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
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An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
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The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…
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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
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That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…
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The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
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The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
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To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…
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of Hunt
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To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
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of Overwork
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Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members par…
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of Plod
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The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
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The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States.
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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
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The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
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Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
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A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…
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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…
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The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
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A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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To go or move below or under.
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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…
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To retch.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
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To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
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A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…
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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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The state of being brothers or a brother.
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The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
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The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence…
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An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor,…
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Alt. of Trade union
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The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
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The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
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The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
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The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
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Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
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The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…
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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…
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To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
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A knot or coarse part in cloth.
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…
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The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.
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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
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Parturition.
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The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
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The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
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A pustule; a pimple.
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Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
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