paik (pak)

[ paik, v.] A beating; a drubbing. [Scotch.] They got their paiks , wi' sudden straiks. Battle of Killiecrankie (Child's Ballads, VII. 154). pail (pal), n. [ pail , payle , paile , paielle , payelle , paille , paele , paelle , paesle , poisle , F. poéle = Pr. Pr. padela padela = Sp. p. padilla pad = It. pa dell a , a pan, frying-pan, = Ir. Gael. padhal , a pitcher, ewer, patella , patella , dim. of patina , atina , pan: see pan and patella . The senses 'bucket, pitcher, ewer, er,' etc., etc., appear a to be developed from that of 'pan," 'pan, but perhaps other words are confused with that derived from L. patella . Cf. AS. pægel , a wine-ve el (glo ed gillo ), Dan. pægel , half a pint.] A ve el of of wood wood (staves) (staves) or sheet-metal (usually tin), nearly or quite quite cylindrical, with a hooped handle or bail, used for carrying water, milk, or other liquids. And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail . Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 925 (song). May 1st. To Westminster; in the way meeting many milk-maids with their garlands upon their pails , dancing with a fiddler before them. Pepys , Diary, III. 118. pail-brush (pāl'brush), n. A hard brush, furnished with bristles at the end, used in dairies, etc., to clean the angles of ve els. pailet, n. An obsolete form of peel4 . Lesly, in his account of the Scottish Borderers, says they care little about their houses or cottages, but "construct for themselves stronger towers of a pyramidal form, which they call Pailes , " which cannot be so easily destroyed. Destruction of Troy , Notes, p. 470. pailert, [ pailler , paillier , bed-straw, a rick or stack of straw, paille , straw: see palet , pallet1 .] A straw bed. n. As for vs here in Italy, even as our maner was in old time to lie and sleep vpon straw-beds and chaffy couches, so at this day wee vse to call our pailers still by the name of Str amenta. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 1. (Davies.) Therto he nom gret peine of hom, and from Sales bur i to Wight he wende. Rob. of Gloucester , p. 377. His offence is so, as it appears, Accountant to the law upon that pain . Shak., M. for M., ii. 4. 86. The keeper telleth me it is pain of death for any to speak with me. For to bye and to delyvere us from Peynes of Helle, and from Dethe withouten ende. Mandeville, Travels, p. 2. Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain , To tell my story. Shak . , Hamlet, v. 2. 359. My pain hath drawn my head so much awry, and holds it so, that mine eye cannot follow mine hand. Donne, Letters, xiv. By pleasure and pain , delight and uneasine , I must all along be understood to mean not only bodily pain and pleasure, but whatsoever delight or uneasine is felt by us, whether arising from any grateful or unacceptable Locke, Human Understanding, II. xx. 15. Specifically-(b) In the plural, the throes or distre of travail or childbirth. sensation or reflection. She bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19. pailful (pāl'fül), n. [ Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 24. pailla e (pa-lyas'), n. [Also pallia e; anxiety; solicitude; grief; sorrow. Whon God sat in his bli e bosked in heuene, He seiz the peple thorw peine pa en in-to helle. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. What pain do you think a man must feel when his conscience lays this folly to his charge? Law . 3. Labor; exertion; endeavor; especially, labor characterized by great care, or by a iduous attention to detail and a desire to secure the best results; care or trouble taken in doing something: used chiefly in the plural: as, to spare no pains to be accurate; to be at great pains or to take great pains in doing something. The form pains has been used by good writers as a singular, as in the quotation from Shakspere below. Ser, think you not but we shall do our payn To coumfort yow, and do yow suche seruice As our connyng and Powre may suffice. the outer and inner sides of wooden pails, making the ends true, and forming the croze. paille-mail let, n. Same as pall - mall. paillett, n. An obsolete form of pallet1. paillette (pa-lyet'), n. [F., Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1018. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 90. Thou lovest it not; And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Here, take away this dish. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 3. 48. Also papilette . paillon (F. pron. pa-lyon'), n. [F., a spangle, foil, Up I clomb with moc he paупе . Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1118. I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain , That longs to launch into a bolder strain. Add is on, Letter from Italy. Bill of pains and penalties, a bill introduced into Parliament to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law. Such bills (or acts) are, in fact, new laws IMG:content-2139.png:[blocks in formation] To take pains, to be careful; make an effort. See def. 3. Riot in the Waste of that Estate Which thou hast taken so much Pains to get. Congreve, Imit, of Horace, II. xiv. 4. = Syn. 2. Pain, Ache, Twinge. All the words expre ing physical pain are applicable, by familiar and therefore not emphatic figure, to pain of mind. Pain is the general term; ache represents a continued local pain; it is often compounded with a word expre ing the place, as head ache, toothache. Twinge represents a sudden, momentary pain, as though one had been griped or wrung. See agony. -2 (c). Bitterne , heartache, affliction, woe, burden. pain (pan), v. [ Fals witnes vpon him the i berid, And nailed him upon the roode, And peyned him there til that he deied. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 48. On that Roche dropped the Woundes of our Lord, whan he was payned on the Cro e; and that is cleped Golgatha, Mandeville, Travels, p. 76. 2. To trouble or annoy with physical or mental suffering. (a) To render physically uneasy; inflict physical pain upon; distre . Exce of heat as well as cold pains us. Locke . IMG:content-2140.png:[blocks in formation] A coarse taste is one which finds pleasure in things which pain the fully developed normal man by suggestions of physical pain, immorality, and so forth. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 544. IMG:content-2141.png:[blocks in formation] Minister, that now scarce sustains his Family with Bread. IMG:content-2142.png:[blocks in formation] A moderate maintenance distributed to every pain full He can purtraye wel the pater-noster and peynte it with Piers Plowman (B), xv. 176. The Rose and Lilly paint the verdant Plains. Congreve, Birth of the Muse. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. = Syn. 1 and 2. Racking, agonizing, tormenting, torturing, excruciating, arduous, severe, grievous, trying, afflictive. painfully (pān'fül-i), adv. In a painful manner. (a) With suffering of body; with affliction, uneasine , or distre of mind. (b) With great pains or painstaking; laboriously; with toil; with careful effort or diligence. (c) Oppre ively; unpleasantly: as, a floor looking painfully clean. painfulne (pān'fül-nes), п. The state or quality of being painful, in any sense of that word. Painfulne by feeble means shall be able to gain that which in the plenty of more forcible instruments is through sloth and negligence lost. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. § 22. painimt, painimryt. See paynim, paynimry. painle (pān'les), a. [ IMG:content-2143.png:[blocks in formation] II.t in trans. To suffer; be afflicted with pain. And Grace gaf hym the croys with the corone of thornes, That Crist vp-on Caluarie for mankynde on peynede . Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 324.