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One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison.

To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See Missing, a. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Shak.

h mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray.

To toil. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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.]

To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. And now I am here, netted and in the toils. Sir W. Scott.

t is external; manifest; public. "Sins outward." Chaucer. An outward honor for an in ward toil. Shak.

To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor. My days with toil are overwrought. Longfellow.

Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.

erived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles. By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect. Earle.

nt; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's…

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.

eading the continuance and authority of long custom. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J. M. Mason.

Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. 'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil. Pope. Price current, or Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.