TRAVEL

v. n.

10 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.

2.
v.

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

3.
v.

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

4.
v.

To pass; to go; to move. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak.

5.
v.

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.

6.
v.

To force to journey. [R.] They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser.

7.
n.

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey. With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak. His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.

8.
n.

An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

9.
n.

The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

10.
n.

Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]


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