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One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. [R.]

One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.

Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. Young.

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.

To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak. Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden. To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

nt; a flatterer; a toady. V. Knox. You had nearly imposed upon me, but you have lost your labor. You're too zealous a toadeater, and betray yourself. Dickens.

To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; -- usually with out, implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [Colloq. or Slang] Harper's Weekly.

of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

One who toils, or labors painfully.

Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care. Mickle.

Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks Milton. -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.

A follower of Tolstoy, who advocates and practices manual labor, simplicity of living, nonresistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.

A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money. [Slang, Eng.]

e manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

To labor excessively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

se of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [U.S.] Burrill.

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.