general, denotes a close application to work or business. Among seamen a ship is said to be in labour, when she rolls and tumbles very much, either a hull, under sail, or at anchor.—It is also spoke of a woman in travail or child birth. See Midwifery.

Labourer, generally signifies one that does the most laborious and least artful part of a laborious work, as that of husbandry, masonry, &c.

Labrador, also called New-Britain, and Eskimaux, is a country in North America, bounded by Hudson's Straits and the Atlantic Ocean, on the north; by the same ocean, on the east; by the river of St. Lawrence and and Canada, on the south; and by Hudson's bay, on the west: situated between 59° and 79° of W. long. and between 50° and 64° of N. lat.