pain /(pān)/

1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

   We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.

   Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.

   None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.

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.
3. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

   She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.

4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.

   In rapture as in pain.

5. See Pains, labor, effort.

imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining

1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
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.

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.