Word Meanings - GETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.

GAINSOME
1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
GAINSAY
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
GAINSAYER
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
GAINSBOROUGH HAT
A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-
GAINSTAND
To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
GAINSTRIVE
To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
AGAINSTAND
To withstand.
AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif.
AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
'GAINST; GAINST
A contraction of Against.