Category:Travel

Trav"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or travelling.] Etym: [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.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: the length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel Of a slide valve.

4. Labor; parturition; travail. [obs.]