the profit or lucre a person reaps from his trade, employment, or industry. Some derive the word from the German \(gevin\); 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.

in Architecture, is the workman'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 thickness of the shoulder is cut into the trimmer; also bevelling 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 failing as near the wind as possible.