Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 3
Padlocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Padlock
Padlock (v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock. -- Milton. Tennyson.
Padlock (n.) A detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut.
Padlock (v.) Fasten with a padlock.
Padnag (n.) An ambling nag. "An easy padnag." -- Macaulay.
Padow (n.) (Zool.) A paddock, or toad.
Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.
Padroni (n. pl. ) of Padrone.
Padrones (n. pl. ) of Padrone.
Padrone (n.) A patron; a protector.
Padrone (n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
Padrone (n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
Padrone (n.) An owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy.
Padrone (n.) An employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S..
Paduasoy (n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff. [Written also padesoy.]
Compare: Comanches
Comanches (n. pl.; sing. Comanche) (Ethnol.) A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.
Paducahs (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) See Comanches.
Paean (n.) 歡樂歌；讚頌歌 An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
Paean (n.) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph, joy, or praise. -- Dryden. "Public p[ae]ans of congratulation." -- De Quincey.
Paean (n.) See Paeon.
Paeon (n.) (Anc. Poet.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. [Written also, less correctly, p[ae]an.]
Paean (n.) A formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, paean, pean].
Paean (n.) (Ancient Greece) A hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: paean, pean].
Paedobaptism (n.) Pedobaptism.
Pedobaptism (n.) The baptism of infants or of small children. [Written also p[ae]dobaptism.].
Paedogenesis (n.) (Zool.) Reproduction by young or larval animals.
Paedogenetic (a.) (Zool.) Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
Paeon (n.) (Anc. Poet.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. [Written also, less correctly,p[ae]an.]
Paeonine (n.) (Chem.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline. Paeony
Paeony (n.) See Peony.
Paeony (n.) (Bot.) Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers; the Peony.
Peony (n.; pl. Peonies) (Bot.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus P[ae]onia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation. [Written also p[ae]ony, and piony.]
Paeony (n.) Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers [syn: peony, paeony].
Pagan (n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. -- Shak.
Syn: Gentile; heathen; idolater.
Usage: Pagan, Gentile, Heathen. Gentile was applied to the other nations of the earth as distinguished from the Jews. Pagan was the name given to idolaters in the early Christian church, because the villagers, being most remote from the centers of instruction, remained for a long time unconverted. Heathen has the same origin. Pagan is now more properly applied to rude and uncivilized idolaters, while heathen embraces all who practice idolatry.
Pagan (n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.
And all the rites of pagan honor paid. -- Dryden.
Pagan (a.) Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam [syn: heathen, heathenish, pagan, ethnic].
Pagan (n.) A person who does not acknowledge your god [syn: heathen, pagan, gentile, infidel].
Pagan (n.) A person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew).
Pagan (n.) Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures [syn: hedonist, pagan, pleasure seeker].
Pagandom (n.) The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.] Paganic
Paganic (a.) Alt. of Paganical
Paganical (a.) Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." -- Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]
Paganish (a.) Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." -- Sharp
Paganism (n.) The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
Paganism (n.) Any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism [syn: paganism, pagan religion, heathenism].
Paganity (n.) The state of being a pagan; paganism. [R.] -- Cudworth.
Paganized (imp. & p. p.) of Paganize.
Paganizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paganize.
Paganize (v. t.) To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. -- Hallywell.
Paganize (v. i.) To behave like pagans. -- Milton.
Paganize (v.) Make pagan in character; "The Church paganized Christianity" [syn: paganize, paganise].
Paganly (adv.) In a pagan manner. -- Dr. H. More.
Page (n.) A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress.
He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. -- Bacon.
Page (n.) A boy child. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Page (n.) A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
Page (n.) (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Page (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Page (v. t.) To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Page (v. t.) To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
Page (v. t.) To call a person on a pager.
Page (n.) One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Such was the book from whose pages she sang. -- Longfellow.
Page (n.) Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
Page (n.) (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
Paged (imp. & p. p.) of Page.
Paging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Page.
Page (v. t.) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Page (n.) One side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains.
Page (n.) English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: Page, Sir Frederick Handley Page].
Page (n.) United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) [syn: Page, Thomas Nelson Page].
Page (n.) A boy who is employed to run errands [syn: page, pageboy].
Page (n.) A youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings.
Page (n.) In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page, varlet].
Page (v.) Contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system.
Page (v.) Work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer."
Page (v.) Number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate, paginate, page].
PAGE, () A typesetting language.
["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley 1972].
Page, () paging.
Page, () web page.
(1997-04-10)
Page -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 16976
Housing Units (2000): 7302
Land area (2000): 534.824193 sq. miles (1385.188241 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.524760 sq. miles (1.359121 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 535.348953 sq. miles (1386.547362 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.740012 N, 95.165970 W
Headwords:
Page
Page, IA
Page County
Page County, IA
Page -- U.S. County in Virginia
Population (2000): 23177
Housing Units (2000): 10557
Land area (2000): 311.125060 sq. miles (805.810173 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.967319 sq. miles (7.685321 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 314.092379 sq. miles (813.495494 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.613462 N, 78.488469 W
Headwords:
Page
Page, VA
Page County
Page County, VA
Page, AZ -- U.S. city in Arizona
Population (2000): 6809
Housing Units (2000): 2606
Land area (2000): 16.587771 sq. miles (42.962129 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020560 sq. miles (0.053249 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.608331 sq. miles (43.015378 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51810
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 36.914296 N, 111.459717 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Page, AZ
Page
Page, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 157
Housing Units (2000): 95
Land area (2000): 0.244237 sq. miles (0.632572 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.244237 sq. miles (0.632572 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38085
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.400412 N, 98.418682 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68766
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Page, NE
Page
Page, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 225
Housing Units (2000): 125
Land area (2000): 0.178694 sq. miles (0.462816 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.178694 sq. miles (0.462816 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60500
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.157963 N, 97.570149 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58064
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Page, ND
Page
Pageant (n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." -- Shak.
To see sad pageants of men's miseries. -- Spenser.
Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! -- Pope.
We love the man, the paltry pageant you. -- Cowper.
Pageant (a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. "Pageant pomp." -- Dryden.
Pageant (v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [R.] "He pageants us." -- Shak.
Pageant (n.) An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes [syn: pageant, pageantry].
Pageant (n.) A rich and spectacular ceremony [syn: pageant, pageantry].
Pageantry (n.) Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.
Such pageantry be to the people shown. -- Dryden.
The pageantry of festival. -- J. A. Symonds.
Syn: Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.
Pageantry (n.) A rich and spectacular ceremony [syn: pageant, pageantry].
Pageantry (n.) An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes [syn: pageant, pageantry].
Pagehood (n.) The state of being a page.
Paginae (n. pl. ) of Pagina.
Pagina (n.) (Bot.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.
Paginal (a.) Consisting of pages. "Paginal books." -- Sir T. Browne.
Pagination (n.) The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. -- Lowndes.
Pagination (n.) The system of numbering pages [syn: pagination, folio, page number, paging].
Page (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Paged (p[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paging (p[=a]"j[i^]ng).] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Paging (n.) The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
Paging (n.) Calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system); "the public address system in the hospital was used for paging."
Paging (n.) The system of numbering pages [syn: pagination, folio, page number, paging].
Paging; paged, () A technique for increasing the memory space available by moving infrequently-used parts of a program's working memory from RAM to a secondary storage medium, usually hard disk. The unit of transfer is called a page.
A memory management unit (MMU) monitors accesses to memory and splits each address into a page number (the most significant bits) and an offset within that page (the lower bits). It then looks up the page number in its page table. The page may be marked as paged in or paged out. If it is paged in then the memory access can proceed after translating the virtual address to a physical address. If the requested page is paged out then space must be made for it by paging out some other page, i.e. copying it to disk. The requested page is then located on the area of the disk allocated for "{swap space" and is read back into RAM. The page table is updated to indicate that the page is paged in and its physical address recorded.
The MMU also records whether a page has been modified since it was last paged in. If it has not been modified then there is no need to copy it back to disk and the space can be reused immediately.
Paging allows the total memory requirements of all running tasks (possibly just one) to exceed the amount of physical memory, whereas swapping simply allows multiple processes to run concurrently, so long as each process on its own fits within physical memory. (1996-11-22)
Pagod (n.) A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod." -- Pope.
Pagod (n.) An idol. [Obs.] -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Pagoda (n.) 寶塔 A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
Pagoda (n.) An idol. [R.] -- Brande & C.
Pagoda (n.) 印度的舊金幣 A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
Pagoda (n.) An Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof.
PAGODA, () comm. law. A denomination of money in Bengal. In the computation of ad valorem duties, it is valued at one dollar and ninety-four cent's. Act of March 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 Story's L. U. S. 626. Vide Foreign Coins.
Pagodite (n.) (Min.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.
Agalmatolite (n.) [Gr. 'a`galma, 'a`galmatos, image, statue + -lite: cf. F. agalmatolithe.] (Min.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.
Paguma (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma.
They resemble a weasel in form.
Paguma larvata (n.) 白鼻心 ；花面狸；果子狸；果子貓 The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), also called the gem-faced civet or Himalayan palm civet, is a viverrid species native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has been listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008 as it occurs in many protected areas, is tolerant to some degree of habitat modification, and widely distributed with presumed large populations that are unlikely to be declining. [2]
Pagurian (n.) (Zool.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
Pah (interj.) An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.
Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. -- Shak.
Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment. [New Zealand.] -- Farrow.
Pahi (n.) (Naut.) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
Pahlevi (n.) Same as Pehlevi.
Pahlavi, Pahlevi (n.) The language of Sassanian Persia. See Pehlevi.
Pahlavi, Pahlevi (n.) The script in which the Pahlavi language was written. It was taken from the Aramaic alphabet.
Pahlavi, Pahlevi (n.) A gold coin formerly used in Iran, equal in value to 20 rials.
Pahlevi (n.) Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980) [syn: Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah Pahlavi, Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi].
Pahoehoe (n.) (Min.) A name given in Hawaii (formerly the Sandwich Islands) to lava having a relatively smooth or billowing surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called aa.
Pahoehoe (n.) Freely flowing lava.
PahUtes (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) See Utes.
Paid (imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
Paid (imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] "Paid of his poverty." -- Chaucer.
Pay (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Paid (p[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Paying.] [OE. paien, F. payer, fr. L. pacare to pacify, appease, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See Peace.] To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. -- P. Plowman.
[She] pays me with disdain. -- Dryden.
Pay (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. -- B. Jonson.
Pay (v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). "Pay me that thou owest." -- Matt. xviii. 28.
Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. -- Matt. xviii. 26.
If they pay this tax, they starve. -- Tennyson.
Pay (v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
This day have I paid my vows. -- Prov. vii. 14.
Pay (v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
Not paying me a welcome. -- Shak.
To pay off. (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship.
To pay off. (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind.
To pay off. (c) To bribe.
To pay one's duty, To render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior.
To pay out (Naut.), To pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable.
To pay the piper, To bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.]
Paid (a.) Marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check" [ant: unpaid].
Paid (a.) Involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby [syn: nonrecreational, paid].
Paid (a.) Yielding a fair profit [syn: gainful, paid, paying].
Paideutics (n.) The science or art of teaching.
Paien (n. & a.) Pagan. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Paigle (n.) (Bot.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil.]
Paigle (n.) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel [syn: oxlip, paigle, Primula elatior].
Paigle (n.) Early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers [syn: cowslip, paigle, Primula veris].
Paijama (n.) Pyjama.
Pyjama (n.) [Hind. p[=a]e-j[=a]ma, literally, leg clothing.] In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. Usually used in the plural. See pajamas. [Written also paijama pajama.] [Chiefly British variant of pajama.] Pyjamas
Pail (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. -- Shak.
Pail (n.) A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn: bucket, pail].
Pail (n.) The quantity contained in a pail [syn: pail, pailful].
Pailfuls (n. pl. ) of Pailful.
Pailful (n.) The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." -- Shak.
Pailful (n.) The quantity contained in a pail [syn: pail, pailful].
Paillasse (n.) An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]
Paillasse (n.) Mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust [syn: paillasse, palliasse].
Pailmall (n. & a.) See Pall-mall. [Obs.]
Pain (n.) 痛，疼痛；痛苦 [U]；（身體特定部位的）疼痛 [C] Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or 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.
Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation
in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture,
proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence;
bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. "The pain of Jesus
Christ." -- Chaucer.
Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where
sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of
stimulation of them. The sensation is generally interpreted as originating at
the peripheral end of the nerve.
Pain (n.) pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. -- 1 Sam. iv. 19.
Pain (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain. -- Chaucer.
In rapture as in pain. -- Keble.
Pain (n.) See Pains, labor, effort.
Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill.
To die in the pain, To be tortured to death. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pained (imp. & p. p.) of Pain.
Paining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pain.
Pain (v. t.) 使煩惱，使痛苦；使疼痛 To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] -- Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
Pain (v. t.) 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.
Pain (v. t.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart. -- Jer. iv. 19.
To pain one's self, To exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all that she might." -- Chaucer.
Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.
Pain (n.) A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" [syn: pain, hurting].
Pain (n.) Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" [syn: pain, painfulness] [ant: pleasance, pleasure].
Pain (n.) A somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" [syn: pain, pain sensation, painful sensation].
Pain (n.) A bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" [syn: pain, pain in the neck, nuisance].
Pain (n.) Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" [syn: annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass].
Pain (v.) (v. i.) 引起疼痛，感到疼痛 Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed [syn: trouble, ail, pain].
Pain (v.) Cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" [syn: pain, anguish, hurt].
Pain (n.) An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Painable (a.) 疼痛的；引起痛苦的；費力的；困難的；麻煩的 Causing pain; painful. [Obs.]
The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. -- Evelyn.
Painful (a.) 疼痛的；引起痛苦的；費力的；困難的；麻煩的；令人不快的；惱人的 Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. -- Addison.
Painful (a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
Painful (a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
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.
Painful (a.) Causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" [ant: painless].
Painful (a.) Causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: afflictive, painful, sore].
Painful (a.) Exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable].
Painful (a.) Causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful" [syn: irritating, painful].
Painim (n.) A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] -- Peacham.
Painless (a.) 不痛的；容易的 Free from pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly, adv. -- Pain"less*ness, n.
Painless (a.) Requiring little hard work or exertion; "a painless solution to the problem".
Painless (a.) Not causing physical or psychological pain; "painless dentistry" [ant: painful].
Pains (n.) 千辛萬苦，嘔心瀝血；pain 的名詞複數 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 (n.) An effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus, pains, strain].
Painstaker (n.) 不辭勞苦的人 One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. -- Gay.
Painstaking (a.) 勤勉的，刻苦的，不辭辛勞的；十分小心的；仔細的；煞費苦心的 Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." -- Harris.