Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pains"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pains \Pains\, n.
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in
form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the
former.
And all my pains is sorted to no proof. --Shak.
The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon.
The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.
--Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pains
n : an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: {striving}, {nisus},
{strain}]
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