(transitive) To acquire possession of.

(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.

(transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.

(transitive) To increase.

(intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.

(transitive) To reach.

To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.

(intransitive) To put on weight.

(dated, ambitransitive, of a timekeeping device) To run fast, often by a specified amount.

The act of gaining; acquisition.

The thing or things gained.

(electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.

(obsolete) Against.

(obsolete or dialectal) Straight, direct; near; short.

(obsolete or dialectal) Suitable; convenient; ready.

(dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.

(dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.

(obsolete or dialectal) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.

(dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.

(dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.

(architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.