Synonyms:
Big_Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's_Wain, Wain, Wagon
Meaning: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Synonyms:
Wain, John_Wain, John_Barrington_Wain
Meaning: English writer (1925-1994)
Usage examples
"Four wheels to Charles's wain: Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning, Godolphin slain."
On the one hand, Jeff Wain's infatuation had rapidly increased, in view of her speedy departure.
She had as yet no fear of personal violence from Wain; but, under the circumstances, his attentions were an insult.
In a week her school would be over, and then she would get Elder Johnson, or some one else than Wain, to take her back to Patesville.
The dragon they cast, the worm, o'er the wall for the wave to take, and surges swallowed that shepherd of gems. Then the woven gold on a wain was laden -- countless quite!
In the light of this knowledge, Wain's former conduct took on a blacker significance than, upon reflection, she had charitably clothed it with after the first flush of indignation.
From Mrs. Tryon's remark about Wain's wife Amanda, and from things Rena had since learned, she had every reason to believe that this wife was living, and that Wain must be aware of the fact.
Relying upon his own powers, and upon a woman's weakness and aversion to scandal, from which not even the purest may always escape unscathed, and convinced by her former silence that he had nothing serious to fear, Wain made it a point to be present at every public place where she might be.
If he could have understood how she loathed the sight of his narrow eyes, with their puffy lids, his thick, tobacco-stained lips, his doubtful teeth, and his unwieldy person, Wain, a monument of conceit that he was, might have shrunk, even in his own estimation, to something like his real proportions.