·noun ·see Pains, labor, effort.
II. Pain ·noun Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
III. Pain ·noun To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to Punish.
IV. Pain ·noun Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
V. Pain ·noun Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
VI. Pain ·noun To render uneasy in mind; to Disquiet; to Distress; to Grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
VII. Pain ·noun Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
VIII. Pain ·noun To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to Torment; to Torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.