• (n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pains/
Pains 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.» Shak. « The pains they had taken was very great.» Clarendon. ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/4