Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained} (p[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Paining}.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See {Pain}, n.] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. 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.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke .
3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19.
{To pain one's self}, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all that she might.'' --Chaucer.
pain \pain\ (p[=a]n), n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. poinh` penalty. Cf. {Penal}, {Pine} to languish, {Punish}.] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. --Chaucer.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. --Bacon.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. --Addison.
2. 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. ``The pain of Jesus Christ.'' --Chaucer.
Note: 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.
3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. --1 Sam. iv. 19.
4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called {mental pain}. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster +PJC]
In rapture as in pain. --Keble.
5. See {Pains}, labor, effort.
{Bill of pains and penalties}. See under {Bill}.
{To die in the pain}, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
"An eventual separation of a Baltic republic from the Soviet Union will be less pain from the point of view of progress and perestroika than an attempt to keep it by force, by tanks," he said.
He was hospitalized at St. Mary Desert Valley Hospital after complaining of stomach pain.
The National Enquirer recently ran an article claiming her condition was worse than the White House has let on and that the first lady was in severe pain at times.
The researchers said such symptoms of the infection as abdominal pain, fever and nausea are often confused with those of acute appendicitis, chronic bowel inflammation, gastric ulcer or gastrointestinal cancer.
"This is a bill to try to alleviate pain and suffering," he said.
She was wounded, thrashing around on the ground in a lot of pain.
For those who have to let lower-ranking colleagues go, there is pain and guilt.
A health center treated the victims of the attack Friday for nausea, dizziness, swelling and pain, but none became seriously ill, the newspaper Barricada said.
But their pain may be others' gain, specialists say.
Upper respiratory ailments and back pain are the top two reasons people miss work, says the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
"Terry and myself would sit through those long nights and speak with great pain and remorse and longing for his daughter," Keenan said.
Despite the number of people who opted to get tattoos in the dozens of booths at the convention, the sound was of conversation and cameras clicking, not gasps of pain.
"He had lost a lot of blood, but we kept talking to him to take his mind off the pain," he said.
Cheap cement imports are adding to the cyclical pain.
At the time they were surveyed, eight months to 18 months after the angiograms, 76 percent reported they still had chest pain, and 37 percent said they were still seeing a doctor because of it.
A woman who admitted causing "a lot of hurt and pain" was convicted Thursday of kidnapping a baby from a hospital last summer and keeping him for four months.
He was admitted to hospital with chest pain, later diagnosed as a minor heart attack.
'Then the trade-offs will fall into place simultaneously.' This is not to ignore that these last trade-offs involve pain and controversy.
"These people are faced with losing everything, and they're trying to numb the pain," Mr. Johnson says.
The procedure significantly reduces pain, recovery time and hospital stays for patients.
But they were not considered for angioplasty unless they had lingering heart pain or abnormal exercise tests during their recovery.
The procedure measures infrared radiation emitted by the skin and isolates hot spots to capture "a picture of pain," according to the 37-page opinion.
"I remember waking up and feeling a hot, burning pain in my belly," Mrs. Ellis says.
Indeed, they contend, the pain occurring now for the banking business and its customers holds out the promise of future gains in stability and the potential for growth.
The middle class gets poorer, and the poor feel greater pain than ever.
The outlook: more pain and disruption at home and abroad.
"I have fasted with Cesar Chavez," Jackson said. "I have shared the pain.
Michael Milken will live for the rest of his life with the knowledge that he has inflicted enormous emotional and physical pain upon his wife and his children whom he loves more than anything else in the world.
It was a scenario that involved little pain for the Soviets, provided it left intact their gains in the developing world.
An estimated 10 million U.S. employees suffer work-impairing back pain each year, says the Bureau of National Affairs, a labor reporting service.