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Webster 1913 Edition

(pānz)

Noun.

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.

Shakespeare

The

pains

they had taken was very great.

Clarendon.

The labored earth your

pains

have sowed and tilled.

Dryden.