Definition of "gaine" []

• In sculpture, the lower part of a figure of which the head, with sometimes the bust, is alone carved to represent nature, the remaining portion presenting, as it were, the appearance of a sheath closely enveloping the body, and consequently broader at the shoulders than at the feet. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I immediately gaine pounds here, even I move more in the States than in Germany."
• "You seemed to have gaine valuable lessons and experience from it even if you didn't win."
• "And knowing her to be a woman of great wealth (after all their usuall manner, when they cast forth their fishing nets for gaine:) liberally he commeuned Almesdeeds, and dayly workes of"