Noun

(uncountable) The condition of being weak.

(countable) An inadequate quality; fault

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness , mean and embarrassing and sad.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , passage=Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.}}

(countable) A special fondness or desire.

Noun

(en-noun)

(archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

* Hooker

As everything of price, so this doth require travail .

*, II.20:

*:Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction.

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:

He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail .

Specifically, the labor of childbirth.

(obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).

(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.