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.
Travail
(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. Travailous
(Trav"ail*ous) a. Causing travail; laborious. [Obs.] Wyclif. — Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
Trave
(Trave) n. [Through French, fr. L. trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF. tref a beam, also F. travail a
frame to confine a horse, OE. trave, trevys, travise, It. travaglio, F. travée the space between two
beams.]
1. (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell.
2. A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.
She sprung as a colt doth in the trave.
Chaucer. Travel
(Trav"el) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.]
[Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]
1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.
2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels
for his health; he is traveling in California.
4. To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
Shak. Travel
(Trav"el) v. t.
1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.
2. To force to journey. [R.]
They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.
Spenser. Travel
(Trav"el), n.
1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary.
Shak.
His travels ended at his country seat.
Dryden. 2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; —
often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
