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Gain
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GainThe word is used as synonymous with profits.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Profits
In general, by this term is understood the benefit which a man derives from a thing. It is more particularly applied to such benefit as arises from his labor and skill.
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Gump
In Virginia penitentiary slang, a homosexual.
Gunner
In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner who masturbates while looking at a female correctional officer.
Gabel
A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. But this seems to be an error for gabelle signified in that country, previously to its revolution, a duty upon salt. Lord Coke says, that gabel or gavel, gablum, gabellum, gabelletum, galbelletum, and gavillettum signify a rent, duty, or service, yielded or done to the king or any other lord.
Gage
Contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt; a pawn. Hence mortgage is a dead pledge.
Gager del ley
Wager of law.
Gain
Gainage
Old English law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke men and villeins, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by cultivating it.
Gallon
measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts.
Gallows
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
Game
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Animals; Ferae natural
Gaming
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Profits
In general, by this term is understood the benefit which a man derives from a thing. It is more particularly applied to such benefit as arises from his labor and skill.
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Gump
In Virginia penitentiary slang, a homosexual.
Gunner
In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner who masturbates while looking at a female correctional officer.
Gabel
A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France. But this seems to be an error for gabelle signified in that country, previously to its revolution, a duty upon salt. Lord Coke says, that gabel or gavel, gablum, gabellum, gabelletum, galbelletum, and gavillettum signify a rent, duty, or service, yielded or done to the king or any other lord.
Gage
Contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt; a pawn. Hence mortgage is a dead pledge.
Gager del ley
Wager of law.
Gain
Gainage
Old English law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke men and villeins, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by cultivating it.
Gallon
measures. A gallon is a liquid measure, containing two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, or four quarts.
Gallows
An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death.
Game
Birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Animals; Ferae natural
Gaming
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions.
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