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

pain \pain\ p=an, 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.
      1913 webster

            we will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
                                                  --bacon.
      1913 webster

            interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --dryden.
      1913 webster

            none shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   3. pl. specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
      1913 webster

            she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came
            upon her.                             --1 sam. iv.
                                                  19.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. see pains, labor, effort.
      1913 webster

   bill of pains and penalties. see under bill.

   to die in the pain, to be tortured to death. obs.
      --chaucer.
      1913 webster
see also:
penal pine punish mental pain pains bill of pains and penalties 
bill to die in the pain 

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

pain \pain\, v. t. imp.  p. p. pained p=and; 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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --locke
      .
      1913 webster

   3. to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
      grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
      1913 webster

            i am pained at my very heart.         --jer. iv. 19.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   syn: to disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
        distress; agonize; torment; torture.
        1913 webster
see also:
pained paining pain to pain one's self 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pain
     n 1: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient
          developed severe pain and distension" syn: hurting
     2: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
        avoid; "the pain of loneliness" syn: painfulness ant:
         pleasure
     3: a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity
        increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" syn:
         painful sensation
     4: a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
        syn: pain in the neck, nuisance
     5: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of
        unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got
        a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend,
        he's an infliction" syn: annoyance, bother, botheration,
         infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
     v 1: cause bodily suffering to syn: afflict, trouble, ail
     2: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "it pains me to
        see my children not being taught well in school" syn: anguish,
         hurt
see also:
hurting painfulness pleasure painful sensation pain in the neck nuisance 
annoyance bother botheration infliction pain in the ass 
afflict trouble ail anguish hurt 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

248 moby thesaurus words for "pain":
   abscess, ache, aching, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize,
   agony, ague, ail, anemia, anguish, ankylosis, annoyance, anoxia,
   apnea, asphyxiation, assiduousness, asthma, ataxia, atrophy,
   backache, barb the dart, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding,
   blennorhea, blow, bore, bother, bruise, burn, cachexia, cachexy,
   castigation, chafe, chastening, chastisement, cheerlessness, chill,
   chills, colic, comfortlessness, condign punishment, constipation,
   constrain, convulse, convulsion, correction, coughing, cramp,
   crucify, cut, cut up, cyanosis, depress, depression, deserts,
   despair, diarrhea, diligence, disciplinary measures, discipline,
   discomfort, discomposure, dismalness, dismay, disquiet, distress,
   distressfulness, dizziness, dolor, drag, dreariness, dropsy,
   dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, effort, elbow grease,
   emaciation, excruciate, exertion, fainting, fatigue, ferule,
   fester, fever, fibrillation, flux, fret, gall, give pain, gnaw,
   grate, grief, grieve, grievousness, grind, gripe, growth, harass,
   harrow, headache, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hurt,
   hurt the feelings, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus,
   indigestion, industry, inflame, inflammation, inflict pain,
   infliction, injure, injury, insomnia, irk, irritate, irritation,
   itching, jaundice, joylessness, judgment, judicial punishment,
   kill by inches, labor, labored breathing, lacerate, lament,
   lamentability, lamentation, lesion, low blood pressure, lumbago,
   marasmus, martyr, martyrize, misery, mourn, mournfulness,
   nasal discharge, nasty blow, nausea, necrosis, nemesis, nip,
   nuisance, ordeal, painfulness, pains, pains and punishments, pang,
   paralysis, passion, pathos, pay, payment, penal retribution,
   penalty, penology, pest, pierce, pinch, pitiability, pitiableness,
   pitifulness, poignancy, prick, prolong the agony, pruritus,
   punishment, punition, put to torture, rack, rankle, rash, rasp,
   regrettableness, retribution, retributive justice, rheum, rub,
   sadden, sadness, sclerosis, scourge, sedulousness, seizure,
   sharpness, shock, skin eruption, smarting, sneezing, sore,
   sore spot, soreness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, spasm, stab, sting,
   stitch, strain, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffer, suffering,
   tabes, tachycardia, tender spot, throes, toil, torment, torture,
   travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, try, tumor, tweak, twinge,
   twist, twist the knife, upset, upset stomach, vertigo, vexation,
   vomiting, wasting, well-deserved punishment, what-for, while, woe,
   woebegoneness, woefulness, wound, wrench, wretchedness, wring

[5] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

pain, n.  an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical
basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely
mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

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