Trav"ail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf.
Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from
LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of
torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have
been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf.
Travel.] 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or
exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require
travail.
Hooker.
2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy
travail.
Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Travailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier,
travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to
torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic]
"Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings."
Latimer.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in
labor.
Trav"ail, v. t. To harass; to
tire. [Obs.]
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to
travail the realm, a great division fell among the
nobility.
Hayward.
||Tra`vail" (?), n. [Cf. F.
travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail
beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v.
i.] Same as Travois.
Trav"ail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf.
Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from
LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of
torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have
been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf.
Travel.] 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or
exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require
travail.
Hooker.
2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy
travail.
Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Travailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier,
travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to
torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic]
"Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings."
Latimer.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in
labor.
Trav"ail, v. t. To harass; to
tire. [Obs.]
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to
travail the realm, a great division fell among the
nobility.
Hayward.
||Tra`vail" (?), n. [Cf. F.
travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail
beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v.
i.] Same as Travois.
