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To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. Milton.

Suffering pain or grief. Pope. Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.

Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. [Obs.] Shak.

Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

A painter of landscapes.

us constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.

Loose; lascivious. [Obs.] "To depaint lascious wantonness." Holland.

A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. L'Estrange.

the Portuguese man-of-war, and Cyanea, are able to penetrate the human skin, and inflict painful stings in the same way. Called also nettling cell, cnida, cnidocell.

ries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union.

To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.

minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. -- Red lead ore (Min.), crocoite. -- Sugar of lead, acetate of lead. -- To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to disc…

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain. -- n. sing. & pl.

One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers (1839).

The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.

A dry sirocco of Spain.

To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush. Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different. Sir T. Browne.