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Webster 1913 Edition

Travel

Trav′el

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare

Trav′el

,
Verb.
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.

Trav′el

,
Noun.
1.
The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
With long
travel
I am stiff and weary.
Shakespeare
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
.
3.
(Mach.)
The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece;
as, the
travel
of a slide valve
.
4.
Labor; parturition; travail.
[Obs.]

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