Labored \La"bored\, a.
   1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought;
      not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
      
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   2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.

   Syn: heavy, laboured.
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Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
   {Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.]
   1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
      painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
      work; to toil.
      
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            Adam, well may we labor still to dress
            This garden.                          --Milton.
      
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   2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
      design; to strive; to take pains.
      
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   3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
      work under conditions which make it especially hard,
      wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
      a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and
      formerly with of.
      
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            The stone that labors up the hill.    --Granville.
      
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            The line too labors, and the words move slow.
                                                  --Pope.
      
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            To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.
      
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            Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
            and I will give you rest.             --Matt. xi. 28
      
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   4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
      in labor.
      
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   5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
      sea. --Totten.
      
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