What is "paining"

Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained (p[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.]

1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
   --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).

2. 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 .

3. 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.

vb. (present participle of pain English)