| bale | sorrow, pain, misfortune |
| barley-break | type of country game in which a couple occupies a den [nicknamed ‘hell’] in the centre of a [barley] field, and tries to catch other couples, who may separate [break] when about to be caught |
| bone-ache, Neapolitan | [pain in the bones from Naples] syphilis, venereal disease |
| devil wear black, let the | to hell with mourning! |
| die | suffer pain, go through agony |
| fry | burn with lust; or: burn in hell |
| gall | sore, pain, painful spot |
| grief | pain, torment, distress |
| grievance | distress, suffering, pain |
| harm | injury, hurt, pain |
| hell-hated | hated as hell is hated |
| hell-kite | kite from hell, hellish savage |
| lam-damn | [unclear meaning] beat the hell out of, thrash without pity |
| land-damn | [unclear meaning] beat the hell out of, thrash without pity |
| languishment | longing, pain, grief [caused by love] |
| Limbo | domain on the border of hell believed to contain the souls of unbaptised infants and of just people born before Christ |
| limbo patrum | limbo [temporary home of departed spirits between heaven and hell] of the fathers: gaol, imprisonment |
| mean | take pains, make efforts |
| middle earth | earth, seen as midway between heaven and hell |
| Neapolitan bone-ache | [pain in the bones from Naples] syphilis, venereal disease |
| offend | harm, hurt, pain |
| pain | effort, endeavour, exertion, labour |
| pain | on pain of, under the penalty of |
| pained | tormented, distressed, persecuted |
| painful | inflicting pain, harmful, afflicting |
| painful | suffering from pain, causing hurt |
| painfully | diligently, taking great pains |
| pinch | pain, pang, torment |
| pinch | torment, pain, torture |
| shot | darting, shooting; or: wound, pain |
| smart | suffer, feel pain |
| study | endeavour, take pains, make an effort |
| tereu | sound of a nightingale in pain |
| throe | (plural) labour pains, pangs of childbirth |
| throe | agonize, torture, cost in pain [as in childbirth] |
| touch | depth of feeling, mental pain, pang |
| travail | labour, pain of childbirth |
| under fiend | devil from hell, fiend from under the earth |
| unpanged | undistracted by pain, untormented |
| vengeance | [strong exclamation] what the hell |
| Vulcan | Roman god of fire, and the gods' blacksmith; his forge was under Mt Etna, and thus associated with destruction and hell |
| wring | writhe, struggle, twist [as if in pain] |
| wringing | aches and pains |