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with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

One who drudges; a drudge.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

To make a drudge or slave of. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).

d; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.

A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] Huloet.

A drudge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.

Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.

To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.

Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. Farrar.

To drudge; to do menial work. Richardson.

A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. Goldsmith.

A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

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