To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
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Trial; attempt; essay.
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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 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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An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
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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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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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A pustule; a pimple.
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Sick.
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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…
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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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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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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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To retch.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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