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A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long.

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.

Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

pe. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

tly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced.

Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.

carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.

Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] "Assiduate labor." Fabyan.

Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor. To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton.

or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.

The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.