v. t.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am pained at my very heart. Jer. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]
To pain one's self,
n. [ OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally interpreted as originating at the peripheral end of the nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]
In rapture as in pain. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bill of pains and penalties.
To die in the pain,
a. [ Cf. F. pénible. ] Causing pain; painful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Made to suffer mental pain.
a.
A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.
n. [ OE. painime pagans, paganism, fr. OF. paienisme paganism, LL. paganismus. See Paganism, Pagan. ] A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively.
n. A medicine used in to relieve pain.
a. Free from pain; without pain. --
n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. [ 1913 Webster ]
And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]
The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]