gainful, gainefull

[English gain (2), s.; ful (1).] Producing gain, profit, or advantage; profitable, advantageous; productive of money. "Petty found it a gainful speculation to send ore thither. Macaulay: Hist. Eng. ch. xii. gāin-fül-lỹ, *gayn-ful-ly, adv . [ Eng.gainful ; -ly. In a profitable or advantageous manner; profitably, advantageously. "To make your almes dedes gaynfully to returne vnto you."- Udall : Corinthians xi. gain'-fül-ne , s. [Eng. gainful; -ne .] The quality of being gainful or profitable; profit, gain, advantage. *gāin-giv-ing, s. [ Eng.gain , pref., and giving .] A misgiving. "It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would, perhaps, trouble a woman." --Shakesp.: Hamlet, v. 2. gāin-Ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [GAIN, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) IMG:content-0275.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia the beam may have a strength to resist lateral strain greater than that due merely to the tenon which rests in the mortise proper. The machine is also adapted for rabbeting and transverse cutting generally. gaining-twist, s. Rifting : A rifle-groove whose angle of twist be comes greater toward the muzzle. This allows the ball to be more easily started, gaining a greater velocity of twist as it proceeds toward the muzzle. gain'-le , a. [Eng.gain; -le .] Unprofitable; returning no profit or gain; productive of no advantage. "[A sin] so absolutely gainle to himself in his capacity, even as a sensual brute." --Hammond : Works, iv. 514. gain-le -ne , s. [Eng. gainle ; -ne .] The quality of being gainle ; unprofitablene . "The parallel holds too in the gainle ne as well as laboriousne of the work." -More: Decay of Piety. *gain-lỹ, gayn-li, *gane-ly, *gayn-liche, *gayn-ly, gayn-lych, a . & adv . [Icel. gegnlligr, a.; gegnliga , adv.] [GAIN, a.] A. As adjective : 1. Well-formed or well-shaped; comely, shapely. (Now only used in the negative compound un gainly.) "[Thou] that art so gaynly a god." E. Eng. Allit . Poems; Cleanne , 727. 2. Suitable, convenient, advantageous. B. As adv.: Handily, conveniently, readily, dexterously. "He might with ease kneel down, and so might the more gainly be loaden?" - H. More: Antidote against Atheism, bk. ii., ch. x.