Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Travailing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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