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adjective

ain adj.

Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person especially one's self; preceded by a possessive. "'my ain' is Scottish"

Synonyms: own (prenominal).

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Etymology of 'Ain'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... desolate tablelands of Chetka scattered their ballast in blackish waves up to the fresh and verdant valley of Ain-Massin. It is difficult to conceive the variety of the territories which could be seen at one view. To the green hills covered with trees and shrubs there succeeded long gray undulations draped like the folds of an Arab ...

— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

... exercises begin?" demanded Hezekiah in a troubled voice. "Ye see, there's Bunker Hill an'—sugar! Abby, ain't that pretty?" he broke off delightedly. Before him stood a slender glass into which the waiter was ...

— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter

... sitting on a stool, near the car, a little blonde chorus chicken, shaking and twitching, while the chauffeur and the garage boss held her up. I says, 'What's this?' and Van Cleft tells me all he knows, which ain't nothing. Them guys in that garage was wise, for it meant a cold five hundred apiece before I left to keep their lids closed. Van Cleft begs me to hustle the old man home, so one of my men takes her down to my office, still ...

— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball

... mind Gawn Hamilton's deserts, He drinks, and swears, and plays at carts, Yet has sae mony takin' arts, Wi' grit and sma', Frae God's ain priests the people's hearts ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... Ain't I one of her elders? Lord love ye, I've known old Susie since she was just up to my knee—and a reg'lar speciment she was. We always called her Two-to-the-Pound. Many's the laugh her father and I has had about her dumpiness, and ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

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