#685.  Leisure. —­ N. leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours,
spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one’s hands; holiday, relaxation &c. (rest) 687; otium cum dignitate [Lat][obs3][Cic.], ease.
     no hurry; no big rush; no deadline. 
     V. have leisure &c. n.; take one’s time, take one’s leisure, take
one’s ease; repose &c. 687; move slowly &c. 275; while away the time &c. (inaction) 681; be master of one’s time, be an idle man. 
     Adj. leisure, leisurely; slow &c. 275; deliberate, quiet, calm,
undisturbed; at leisure, at one’s ease, at loose ends, at a loose end. 
     Adv. unhurriedly, deliberately, without undue haste; anytime. 
     Phr. time hanging heavy on one’s hands; eile mit Weile[Ger].

     #686.  Exertion. —­ N. exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress,
throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt[obs3]; stroke of work, stitch of work.
     “a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together”; dead lift; heft;
gymnastics; exercise, exercitation[obs3]; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.
     labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one’s brow,
swink[obs3], drudgery, slavery, fagging[obs3], hammering; limae labor[Lat]; industry, industriousness, operoseness[obs3], operosity[obs3].
     trouble, pains, duty; resolution &c. 604; energy &c. (physical) 171. 
     V. exert oneself; exert one’s energies, tax one’s energies; use
exertion.
     labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened
chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar
     bestir oneself (be active) 682; take trouble, trouble oneself.
     work hard; rough it; put forth one’s strength, put forth a strong arm;
fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one’s shoulder to the wheel &c. (resolution) 604; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one’s efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to &c. (persevere) 604a; work one’s way, fight one’s way; lay about one, hammer at.
     take pains; do one’s best, do one’s level best, do one’s utmost; give
one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one’s power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one’s power; use one’s best endeavor, use one’s utmost endeavor; try one’s best, try one’s utmost; play one’s best card; put one’s best leg foremost, put one’s right leg foremost; have one’s whole soul in his work, put all one’s strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water &c. (resolution) 604; move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned. 
     Adj. laboring &c. v.