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Gain
GAIN, v.t. [Heb. to gain, to possess.]
1. To obtain by industry or the employment of capital; to get as profit or advantage; to acquire. Any industrious person may gain a good living in America; but it is less difficult to gain property, than it is to use it with prudence. Money at interest may gain five, six, or seven per cent.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,and lose his own soul? Mat 16.
2. To win; to obtain by superiority or success; as, to gain a battle or a victory; to gain a prize; to gain a cause in law.
3. To obtain; to acquire; to procure; to receive; as, to gain favor; to gain reputation.
For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease.
4. To obtain an increase of anything; as, to gain time.
5. To obtain or receive anything, good or bad; as, to gain harm and loss. Acts 27.
6. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
To gratify the queen,and gain the court.
If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Mat 18.
7. To obtain as a suitor.
8. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
To gain into, to draw or persuade to join in.
He gained Lepidus into his measures.
To gain over, to draw to another party or interest; to win over.
To gain ground, to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent; to increase.
GAIN, v.i. To have advantage or profit; to grow rich; to advance in interest or happiness.
Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezek 22.
1. To encroach; to advance on; to come forward by degrees; with on; as, the ocean or river gains on the land.
2. To advance nearer; to gain ground on; with on; as, a fleet horse gains on his competitor.
3. To get ground; to prevail against or have the advantage.
The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.
4. To obtain influence with.
My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor,that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.
To gain the wind, in sea language, is to arrive on the windward side of another ship.
GAIN, n. Profit; interest; something obtained as an advantage.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Phil 3.
1. Unlawful advantage. 2 Cor 12.
2. Overplus in computation; any thing opposed to loss.
GAIN, n. In architecture, a beveling shoulder; a lapping of timbers, or the cut that is made for receiving a timber.
GAIN, a. Handy; dexterous.
gain appears in definitions for these words:
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Access Accomplish Achieve Achieving Acquaint Acquest Acquire Acquired Acquirement Acquiring Acquisite Acquisition Admittance Advantage Advantageable Advantageous Angle Animosity Apply Apprenticeship Arrival Arrive Arriving Attain Attempt Attempting Avarice Avaricious Avariciously Bear Benefit Benefiting Better Bewitch Blank Blow Bobbed Boot Bribe Brocage Captivate Card Carry Catchpenny Certificate Charm Cheat Circumvent Clear Clearing Collect Come Competition Con Conciliate Conciliated Conciliating Conciliation Conquer Conquered Conqueror Conquest Considerably Contentment Contract Coquette Cote Court Courtier Courting Credit Crown-work Curry Dance Day Degree Deny Dilemma Do Domiciled Domiciliated Domiciliating Domiciling Draw Ear Earn Earned Earning Easy Effort Emolument Endeavor Enforce Enforced Engage Engaged Enter Equivalence Erudition Experience Extort Exultation Fancy Fawn Fellowship Feneration Few Final Find Finess Flatterer Flattery Fleshment Foiler Footing Fop Forereach Formalist Fraud Fraudfully Free Gain Gainer Gaingiving Gainless Gainsay Gather Get Getter Getting Gone Government Greedy Grist Ground Hand Have Having Hold Impatronize Inch Income Incoming Insinuant Insinuate Insinuating Insinuation Interlope Jockey Knowledge Labor Learn Learner Learning Lodgment Loose Lose Loser Lucrative Lucre Lucriferous Lucrific Lure Luscious Lust Make Manage Manpleaser Mercenary Minion Notice Nourish Oblocutor Observation Obtain Obtainable Obtained Obtaining Opinion Outgeneral Outsell Over Overcome Overhaul Pain Pass People Perception Person Perverseness Pickthank Piece Pilfer Plausible Plausibly Pleader Pleasing Pleasure Point Popular Popularity Porism Possess Possession Pretend Prevail Prevailing Prevalent Priestcraft Prize Procure Procuring Profit Profitable Profitableness Profitably Profited Profiting Profitless Prosecution Prosper Prosperity Prosperous Prosperously Prove Proverb Purchase Pursue Pursuit Raffle Reach Reaching Recover Recruit Regain Regained Regaining Repertitious Rise Rival Round Sacrifice Saver Saving Scrape Seek Settlement Several Shelter Siege Sight Spoil Spunge Spy Stake Stand Start Station Steal Stealing Stealth Stern-board Stimulus Stock-jobber Stretch String Sturdy Sue Supparasitation Surmise Sycophantize Tag Take Taking Thankless Thoughtful Thrift Traveled Triumph Trover Unacquired Unamiable Unattainable Unconciliating Ungainable Ungainful Ungot Unlearned Unobtained Unprofitable Unprofitably Unprofited Unthrifty Unthriving Upbraid Utilize Vantage Venture Victor Victory Weather Well-water Win Winner Winning Wisdom Worldliness Worldling Worldly
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