A very painful person, and a great clerk.
Jer. Taylor.
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous;
laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.
-- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n.
Pai"nim (?), n.[OE. painime pagans, paganism, fr. OF. paienisme
paganism, LL. paganismus. See Paganism, Pagan.] A pagan; an infidel; --
used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] Peacham.
Pain"less (?), a. Free from pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly, adv. -
- Pain"less*ness, n.
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.
Pains"tak`er (?), n. One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in
all work. Gay.
Pains"tak`ing, a. Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
"Painstaking men." Harris.
Pains"tak`ing, n. The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in
performance. Beau. & Fl.
Pains"wor`thy (?), a. Worth the pains or care bestowed.
Paint (pnt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.]
[OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere,
pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. piÁ to adorn. Cf. Depict,
Picture, Pigment, Pint.] 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply
paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head.