These are the meanings of the letters NIRPA when you unscramble them.
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Pain (n.)
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
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Pain (n.)
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
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Pain (n.)
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
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Pain (n.)
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
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Pain (n.)
See Pains, labor, effort.
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Pain (n.)
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
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Pain (n.)
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.
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Pain (n.)
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
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Pair (n.)
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. \"A pair of beads.\" Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. \"Four pair of stairs.\" Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
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Pair (n.)
Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
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Pair (n.)
Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
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Pair (n.)
A married couple; a man and wife.
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Pair (n.)
A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
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Pair (n.)
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
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Pair (n.)
In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
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Pair (v. i.)
To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
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Pair (v. i.)
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
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Pair (v. i.)
Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
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Pair (v. t.)
To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
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Pair (v. t.)
To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
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Pair (v. t.)
To impair.
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Pian (n.)
The yaws. See Yaws.
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Pirn (n.)
A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.
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Rain (n. & v.)
Reign.
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Rain (n.)
Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.
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Rain (n.)
To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.
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Rain (n.)
To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
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Rain (v. t.)
To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.
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Rain (v. t.)
To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
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Rani (n.)
A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.