'Pains' definitions:

Definition of 'pains'

From: WordNet
noun
An effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus, pains, strain]

Definition of 'Pains'

From: GCIDE
  • Pains \Pains\ (p[=a]nz), n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. [1913 Webster]
  • And all my pains is sorted to no proof. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]