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Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.

Not producing gain; unprofitable. Hammond. -- Gain"less/ness, n.

th or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.

A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

A fit of yawning.

To fit with fetters. [Cant] Johnson.

So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. Barclay (Digest).

iefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.

To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased. We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get. Shak.

That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.

To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

eed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. -- To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. Macaulay. -- To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to mak…

A device, as a loosely fitted plug, which is driven through a pipe by the pressure of the contents behind the plug to clear away obstructions.

Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God"like`ness, n.