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wain
Part of speech: NounA four- wheeled carriage or cart for the conveyance of goods; a waggon; Charles's Wain, the constellation Ursa Major or the Plough, so called from its fancied resemblance to a wain.
Usage examples "wain":- As we drew near the Lawrence Hotel at Luray, the Moonlight Sonata floated dreamily upon the calm night air, and we seemed to feel the beauty of Hugo's lines: Come child, to prayer; the busy day is done, A golden star gleams through the dusk of night; The hills are trembling in the rising mist, The rumbling wain looms dim upon the sight; All things wend home to rest; the roadside trees Shake off their dust, stirred by the evening breeze. - "See America First", Orville O. Hiestand.
- On his introduction Mr. Wain bowed low, assumed an air of great admiration, and expressed his extreme delight in making the acquaintance of so distinguished- looking a lady. - "The House Behind the Cedars", Charles W. Chesnutt.
- Herschel ascends himself with venturous wain, And joins and flanks thy planetary train, Perceives his distance from their elder spheres, And guards with numerous moons the lonely round he steers. - "The Columbiad", Joel Barlow.