To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
To increase.
To reach.
To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
To put on weight.
To run fast.
To acquire possession of.
Tolerably; fairly.
Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
The thing or things gained.
The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
The act of gaining; acquisition.
A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
To gain; to win.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.