Definition of gain

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Gain (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living..

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Splay :: Splay (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders..
Sin :: Sin (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against..
Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form..
Regorge :: Regorge (v. t.) To swallow again; to swallow back.
Remonstrate :: Remonstrate (v. i.) To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation..
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach..
Barringout :: Barringout (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.
Recalcitrate :: Recalcitrate (v. i.) To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition..
Reconsolate :: Reconsolate (v. t.) To console or comfort again.
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes..
Repurchase :: Repurchase (v. t.) To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.
Gainstrive :: Gainstrive (v. t. & i.) To strive or struggle against; to withstand.
Re-turn :: Re-turn (v. t. & i.) To turn again.
Reascend :: Reascend (v. i.) To rise, mount, or climb again..
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
Reincur :: Reincur (v. t.) To incur again.
Reorient :: Reorient (a.) Rising again.
Sake :: Sake (n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health..
Odds :: Odds (a.) Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability..
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