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Show GA GA G A What teinforcement we may gaiz from hopey 1n any truth, thatgets not poffeffion of out tnind wton by felf-evidence or demonftration, the arguments tha gain it affent, are the vouchers and gage of its probability 2. To win Locke 2. A meafure; arule of meafuring 3. T Z0 GAGE. @. a. [gager, French. 1. To wager; to depone as a wager 1 acceptance found, which gain'd This anfwer from the gracious voice divine That fide from fmall refletion gain Milton If fuch a tradition were endeavoured to be fe on foot, it is not eafy to imagine how it {hould a firft gain entertainment; but much more difficult t conceive however it thould come to be univerfall Tillotfor's Sermons propagated He found the Turkifh merchants making merry unto thefe merchants he gave due falutations, ga ging his faith for their fafety, and ‘they likewife t Knolles's Hiftory him -2 To bind by fome caution or furety; t engage For fame with toil we gaiz, butlofe with eafe Pope Sure fome to vex, but never all to pleafe My chief cat ¥s to come fairly off from the great debt { 5. To obtain increafe of any thing allotted I know that ye would gaiz the time, becaufe ye Dayn, ii. 8 fee the king is gone from me Wherein my time, fomething too prodigal Shakefpeare Hath left me gaged meafure 3.. T the content to tak any veflel of liquids particularly See GAUGE properly gauge Ye,/fhould not have loofed from Crete, and hav gained this harm and lofs AE#s, xxvil. 21 Mor 17. To win againft oppofition The And only gains the wealthy clients's caufe Dryden's Perf O love! for Sylvia let me gaiz the prize crow feem to cal upo rainj and gaggle feathers geef whic is but th comfort they receive in the relenting of the air Bacon's Natural Hiftory May fat geefe gaggle with melodious voice And ne'er want goofeberries or apple~fauce, King And make my tongue victorious as her eyes 1 8. To draw into any intereft or party If Pyrrhus muft be wrought to pity 1. Profit [gain If you gain himy 1 fhall comply of courfe A. Philips 9. To obtain as a wooer French. He never fhall find out fit matey but fuc As fome misfortune brings him, or miftake advantage; contrary to Jofs But what things were gaiz to me, thofe I counted fofs for Chrift Phil. iii. 7 Befides the purpofe it were now, to teach ho vi¢tory fhould be ufed, or the gains thereof communicated to the general confent Raleigh Havock and fpoil, and ruin are my gaiz Milton It is in praife of men as in gettings and gains; for light gains make heavy purfes; for light gains come thick, whereas great come but now and then Or whom he wifhes moft fhall feldom gai Through her perverf{enefs, but fhall fee her gaiz' By a far worfe Milton 1o0. To reach ow be mad -private account by fome governor upon his wh ha a grea ftock tha he is content to turn that way, and is invited b Temple the gains Compute the gains of his ungovern'd zeal 111 fuits hiscloth the praife of railing well. Dryden Folly fights for kings or dives for gaizn Pope 2. Intereft lucrative views "That, fir, which ferves for gais And follows but for form Will pack, when it begins to rain And leave thee in the ftorm 3~ Unlawful advantage If pride, if envy, if the luft of gaiz If mad ambition n thy bofom reign Tho boaft'ft, alas 4. Overplu Fitzgerald i comparativ computa tion; any thing oppofed to lofs o GAIN. w. a. [gagner, French, 1. To obtai Egypt becam a gained ground By the mudd and limeous matter brought down by th which fettled by degrees tnto a firm land Nilus Brown's Vilgar Ervours He gains, to live as Man Highgr degree of life Milton GaiN.adj Swift [Anold word now out of ufe Handy; ready; dexterous Preface to the Accidence Ga'tNer, 2 fi [from gain.] One wh _receives profit or advantage The client, befides retaining a clear confcience; i always a gainer, and by no means can be at any lofs as feeing, if the compofition be overhard, he ma relieve himfelf by recourfe to his oath If what I get in empir Bacon I lofe in fame, I think myfelf no gairer Lenbam's Sophy He that lofes any thing, and gets wifdom by i is a gainer by the lofs L' Eftrange By trade, we are as great gaizers by the com modities of other countries as of our own nation Addifon's Freeholder GA'INFUL. adj [gain and full. 1. Advantageous; profitable H will dazzle his eyes, and bait hi in wit the lufcious propofal of fome gainfu fome rich match purchafe or advantageous project. ' Sonth 2. Lucrative; productive of money Nor knows he merchants gaizful care Dryder Maro's mufe comanodious precepts gives Inftruétive to the fwains nor wholly ben On what is gainful : fometimes fhe divert From folid counfels Philips Ga'inFuLLY. adv. [from gainful.] Profitably; advantageouily Ga'inFuLNEess "z f [from gainful. Profit; advantage Ga'ingiviNGg. 7, f. [‘gainff and give. The fame as mifgiving; a giving againft as gainfaying, which 1s ftill in ufe, 1s fay ing againft, or contradiéting Itis but foolery; but it is fuch kind of gain giving as would, perhaps, trouble a woman Shakefpeare's Hamlet Ga'twLEss adj. [from gain. Unprofita ble ; producing no advantage GA'INLESSNESS, 7. /. [from gainlefs. Un rofitablenefs ; want of advantage The parallel holds too in the gainleffnefs as wel as laborioufnefs of the work : miners, buried in eart and darknefs, were never the richer for all the or they digged; no moreis the infatiable mifer Decay of Piety The court of Hanover fhould have endeavoure to gain over thof¢ who were reprefented as thei Swift enemies neceflity be applied both unto one and the fame fub Hooker jec Too facile then, thou didft not much gainfay | Ga'inLY, adv. [from gaiz,] Handily readily ; dexteroufly., Out of ufe T GA w. [g an fay in tN AY Thusfav'd fromdeath, they gaizthePheftan fhores 1. To contradiét; to oppofe; to controver Pope With fhatter'd veflels and difabled oars with; to difpute againft 11. 70 GaIN over. 'To draw to anothe Speeches which gainfay one another, muft o party or intereft T GAIN 1. T w. 7 grow rich to have advantage; t be advanced in intereft or happinefs haf take ufur and increafe tho an haft greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortions Eze xxits 12 2, To encroach: to comé forward by degrees: with oz When watchful herons Ieave their watry ftand as profit or advantage 4+ To obtain influence with: with o7 Sun! found his praif In thy eternal courfe, both when thou climb'ft And when high noon haft gai#'d, and when tho fallft Milton Tho thy fober fenfe in vain Addifon We came to the roots of the mountain, and ha a very troublefome march to gaiz the top ofit Addifon on Italy Shakefpeare. Did I make a gaiz of you by any of them who I fent unto you 2, Cor, xii. 17 to attain The Weft ftill glimmers with fome fireaks of day Now fpurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn Shake/peare's Macbeth Death was the poft, which I almoft did gai Shall I once more be toft into the main #aller Bacon's Efays This muf No woman does it better than yourfelf 1. Airily; cheerfully 2. Splendidly. See GayLy 7. / Pope ‘Come, with prefents, laden from the port To gratify the queen and gaiz the court Dyypden Ga'iLy. adv. [from gay. GAIN afte Clarendon., Fat fees from the defended Umbrian draws To makea noife like a goofe thei who were fent to the other pafs a fhort refiftance, gained it Z0 GA'GGLE. v. 7. [ gagen, gagelen, Dutch, prun good ot bad 6. To obtain whatever of We fhall fee your bearing -Nay, but I bar to-night: you fhall not gage m Shatefpeare By what we do to-night Bird Milton Of glimm'ring air, lefs vex'd with tempeft loud Shakefpeare Was gaged by our king Venice itfelf My good behaviour had gained (o far on the eme peror, that 1 began to conceive hopes of liberty 4. To obtain; to procure; to receive t impawn; to give as a caution, pledge, o {ecurity A moiety competen in comparativ If you have two veflels to fill, and you empty on to fill the other, you gaiz nothing by that Burnet's Theory of the Earth Young An author's principles or parentage overplu th hav computation and wrong at night Another judges by a furer gage Milton A leperonce he lofty and gain'da king One judges, as the weather diGtates, righ "The poem is at noon mot to lofe The Englith have not only gained upon th Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth i And mounting upward with erected flight Gain on the fkies, and foar above the fight Dyyden's Virgil So on the land, while here the ocean gains in other parts it leaves wide fandy plains Pope 3. To get ground; to prevail againft: wit 07t Nay 2, T didft permit, approve, and fair difmifs deny any thing Ml‘ofl I never heard ye That any of thofe bolder vices wante Lefs impudence to gaizfay what they did Shake/peare Than to perform it firft Gainsa'vyer. o nent; adverfarys [from gainfay.] Oppo Such as may fatisfy gainfayers, when fuddenly and befides expectation, they require the fame a our hands Hooker W are, for this caufe challenged as manifef gainfayers of Scripture, even in that which we rea .Hoaker tor Scripture unto the people It was full matter of conyiction to all gainfayers Hammend Other |