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le for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow.

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.] Cowell.

A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc. Ainsworth.

See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.

The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

Same as Wagonwright.

In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.

The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.

The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.

The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

ather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

See Cockswain.

oarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.

A servant. [Obs.] Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.

A little swain. [R.]

the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] Blackstone.