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Fallow
FAL'LOW, a. L. fulvus; qu. helvus, for felvus. Th |
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PA'INFUL, a. Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.
1. Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.
2. Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.
3. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march.
4. Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. |
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