Word Meanings - GAINPAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• HIRUDINE
  Of or pertaining to the leeches.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SWORDLESS
  Destitute of a sword.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• SWORDING
  Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
• HIRELING
  One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.
• HIRE
  A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. Story. Syn. -- Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay. (more info) 1. The price; reward, or compensation paid,
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• CHIRRUP
  To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
• CHURME; CHIRM
  Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• CHIROGYMNAST
  A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of a pianist.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• CHIRETTA
  A plant found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
• CHIROGRAPHIST
  1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.