Word Meanings - GAINAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier.
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- PROFIT
1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain - PROFITABLE
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. - WAINSCOTING
1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel. 2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork. - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - CARRYK
A carack. Chaucer. - PROFITING
Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15. - HORSESHOEING
The act or employment of shoeing horses. - HORSESHOER
One who shoes horses. - CARRYALL
A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse. - PROFITLESS
Without profit; unprofitable. Shak. - TILLAGE
1. The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops. 2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land. Syn. -- Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming; - CARRYTALE
A talebearer. Shak. - CARRY
1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence - ITSELF
The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke. - PLOWSHARE; PLOUGHSHARE
The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone , the pygostyle. - CARRYING
The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with - WAINSCOT
A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. (more info) fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall + schot 1. Oaken timber or boarding. A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. - UNPROFIT
Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - SCARRY
Bearing scars or marks of wounds. - MISCARRY
1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young - OVERCARRY
To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward. - SWAINSHIP
The condition of a swain. - UNPROFITED
Profitless. Shak. - DISPROFIT
Loss; damage. Foxe.