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r connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer. We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison.

Causing pain; painful. [Obs.] The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn.

Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison.

A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] Peacham.

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.

Worth the pains o

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.

One whose occupation is to paint; esp.:

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]

The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.