toiloust (toil us)

[ Troilus so toil us with his triet strenght, Marit of the Mirmydons meruell to wete. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10071. toilsome (toil's um), a. [ Yea, a hard and a toilsome thing it is for a bishop to know the things that belong unto a bishop. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, viii. 24. These duties are beyond measure minute and toilsome . Burke , Rev. in France. =Syn. Onerous, tedious. toilsomely (toil's um-li), adv . In a toilsome or laborious manner. Their life must be toilsomely spent in hewing of wood and drawing of water. Bp. Hall , The Gibeonites. toilsomene (toil's um-nes), n . The character of being toilsome; laboriousne . The toilsomene of the work and the slowne of the succe ought not to deter us in the least. Abp . Secker , Sermons, II. xxii. toil-worn (toil'worn), a . Exhausted or worn out with toil. He [Le ing] stands before us like a toil-worn but unwearied and heroic champion, earning not the conquest but the battle. Carlyle , German Literature.