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Gain :: Gain (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily..

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses..

Fonge :: Fonge (v. t.) To take; to receive.

Step :: Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.

Spermatheca :: Spermatheca (n.) A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa..

Contrecoup :: Contrecoup (n.) A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected..

Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..

Apostate :: Apostate (n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession..

Willing :: Willing (v. t.) Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired..

Sunniah :: Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.

Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels..

Living :: Living (n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..

Exchange :: Exchange (v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes..

Adopter :: Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters..

Local :: Local (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

Sternsman :: Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel..

Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..

Conceptacle :: Conceptacle (n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.

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