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 for- bidden and infamous ones. What is gained beyond a cer- tain sum, by gaming, is all liable to be restored again, if the loser will take the benefit of the law.

architecture, is the workmen's term for the bevelling shoulder of a joist or other timber. It is used, also, for the lapping of the end of the joist, &c. upon a trimmer or girder; and then the thick- ness of the shoulder is cut into the trimmer, also be- velling upwards, that it may just receive the gain; and so the joist and trimmer lie even and level with the surface. This way of working is used in floors and hearths.

To Gain the wind, in sea-language, is to arrive on the weather-side or to windward of some other vessel in sight, when both are plying to windward, or sailing as near the wind as possible.