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单词 gainand
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gainandadj.

Forms: Middle English gainand, Middle English–1500s gaynand, ganand, 1500s ganeand.
Etymology: northern present participle of gain v.1: see -and suffix1.
Scottish and northern dialect. Obsolete.
Appropriate, becoming, suitable.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16556 In tua þis tre þai scare, Als mikel als þai sagh to þaim gainand.
c1480 (a1400) Seven Sleepers 210 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 432 A house to byg in-[to] þat hil, þat gaynand ware his hyrdis til.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xi. 77 Now is the tyme ganand our werk to speid.
1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. B3v Except ȝe vnderstude..Thame apt, and ganand for the ȝok.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 786 I will the ganandest gait to that gay glyde.
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 373 A ganeand maister for sic a man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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