Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill. -- To die in the pain, to
be tortured to death. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained (?); 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.