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Free from pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly, adv. -- Pain"less*ness, n.

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.

One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

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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. 2 Kings ix. 30.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.

The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.

Like a painter's work. [Obs.] "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.

The state or position of being a painter. [R.] Br. Gardiner.

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.

The art of painting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dryden.

Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. [Cant]

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay.

One who impairs. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

Impairment. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The country; the people of the neighborhood.

The chaparral cock.