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of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.

rmerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

ghty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29.

To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. Moil not too much under ground. Bacon. Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes. Dryden.

To toil; to labor. [Prov. Eng.]

A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South.

A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang]

One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." Pope.

e use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poetry, music, action, and scene into an organic whole. The term is applied esp. to the later works of Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde," "Die Meistersinger," "Rheingold," "Walküre," "Siegfried," "Götterdämm…

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]

Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.

males of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosoph…

to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.

To row. "Oared himself." Shak. Oared with laboring arms. Pope.

At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor. See At (synonym).

an end. Within a while, Philoxenus came to see how onward the fruits were of his friend's labor. Sir P. Sidney.

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.