Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To avail.
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- verb obsolete To
gain ; toavail .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whut purrsonul gayne demz get frum doin dis stoopy an dangeruss fing ai rilly carnt fathum.
White mouse… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The fond yong woman, more covetously addicted to gayne and commodity, then looking into the knavish intention of her Gossip
The Decameron 2004
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Masses/they do choppe and chaũge/they bye and sell and sett them furthe to most vile and filthie gayne.
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Neuertheles in this matter sedicion muste be auoyded so much as may be/and these princes must not vnder the colour and cloke of Religion/seeke theyr own gayne and honor: but here only let thẽ resiste/that nothing be done contrary to
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Magnus, and none botte hee, the ronnynge pryze wylle gayne.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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There was a poore Gardener amongst the rest, which bought me for the summe of fifty pence, which seemed to him a great price, but he thought to gayne it againe by the continuall travell of my body.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Cardinalships and other high dignities & offices of gayne, till the parties whom they should seeme to gratifie be so old or so sicke as it is not likely they should long enioy them.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The moe wee gayne, the gare [133] wylle prosper beste,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Harrison praises the farmer of his day highly: 'the soyle is even now in these oure dayes growne to be much more fruitfulle; the cause is that our country men are grown more skilful and careful throwe recompense of gayne.'
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We shall not only do ye Lord great service by punishing the Wicked, but shall make gayne for his ministers and people.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884
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