Pains (pānz), n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
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And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak.
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The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon.
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The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.
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