Word of the Day for Tuesday July 8, 2003
travail \truh-VAYL; TRAV-ayl\, noun:
1. Painful or arduous work; severe toil or exertion.
2. Agony; anguish.
3. The labor of childbirth

intransitive verb:
1. To work very hard; to toil.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.