Travel | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Trā'vĕl, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. TRAVELED, or TRAVELLED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRAVELING, or TRAVELLING.] [A different orthography and application of travail.]

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city or through the streets.
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 to Virginia.
To pass; to go; to move.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak. 4. To labor; to travail. [Rare.] See TRAVAIL.

Trăv'el, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To journey over; to pass; as, to travel the whole kingdom of England. “I travel this profound.” Milton. 2. To force to journey. [Rare.] There are other privileges granted unto most of the corporations, . . . that they shall not be traveled forth of their own franchise. Spenser.

Trăv'el, n.

noun

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.

Sense 2. (pl.) An account, by one who travels, of occurrences and observations made during a journey; as, a book of travels; —often used as the title of a book that relates occurrences in traveling; as, Travels in Italy.

Sense 3. The distance which a man rides in the performance of his official duties: or the fee paid for passing that distance; mileage; as, the travel of the sheriff is twenty miles, or that of a representative is seventy miles; his travel is a dollar for every twenty miles. [Rare.] [U. S.]

Sense 4. Labor; toil; parturition. [Obs.] See TRAVAIL.