Pains

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pains \Pains\ (p[=a]nz), n.
     Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in
     form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the
     former.
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           And all my pains is sorted to no proof.  --Shak.
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           The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon.
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           The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.
                                                    --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pains
       n : an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: {striving}, {nisus},
            {strain}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "pains":
     assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, effort, elbow grease,
     endeavor, energy, exertion, hard pull, industriousness, industry,
     long pull, might and main, muscle, nerve and sinew, painstaking,
     painstakingness, sedulousness, thoroughgoingness, thoroughness,
     trouble