n. [ OF. & F. pain, fr. L. panis bread. ] Bread. Having Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. pain bread + demaine manorial, lordly, own, private. See Payn, and Demesne. Said to be so called from the figure of our Lord impressed upon it. ] The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. -- Payn"ize, v. t. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. & a. See Painim. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From Mr. Payne, the inventor. ] To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing. [ 1913 Webster ]