GAIN, the profit or lucre a person reaps from his trade, employment, or industry. Some derive the word from the German gewin: whereof the Italians had made guadagno; the French and English gain.
There are legal and reputable gains, as well as fordid and infamous ones. What is gained beyond a certain sum, by gaming, is all liable to be restored again, if the loser will take the benefit of the law.