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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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533 words match “LABOR”

ELABORATE a. 3 definitions

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]

ELABORATION n. 2 definitions

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

One who, or that which, elaborates.

ELABORATORY a. 2 definitions

Tending to elaborate.

HARD-LABORED a.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.

To surpass in laboring.

OVERLABOR v. 2 definitions

To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden.

UNDERLABORER n.

An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.

UNLABORED a. 3 definitions

Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden.

make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

ind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

American Federation of Labor.

Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." Prescott.

articular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.