cain
IPA: kˈeɪn
Root Word: Cain
noun
- (biblical) The son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel.
- (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
- A surname.
- Alternative form of kain [(Scotland, law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.]
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Examples of "cain" in Sentences
- What a inane pain to gain raising cain, last obtained on stained lanes of Danes.
- Reasons not to vote palin/mc cain by LYNNE KRINGLER on Sunday, Oct 5, 2008 at 4: 58: 30 PM
- It is the feeling seemingly that all the mischief isn't going away, that she will continue to give Mc cain fodder against Obama.
- If a religion thought that blacks and American Indians had that skin color because they bore "the mark of cain" wouldn't they make rather poor jurors?
- The midrash also relates (Tanhuma, Genesis 11) that after Lamech unwittingly killed Cain and Tubal-cain, Adah and Zillah found him with his two victims.
- Juan MC cain is corrupt insider UNAMERICA, anybody vote juan mc cain mean vot for billary .... people GULLIBLE. .juan mc cain is MR SUCK UP!! anyting his done just dangerous.
- Those accused bear the mark of cain for being Muslim in America at the wrong time - especially if they're devout, activist, and for some prominent and engaged in charitable work.
- Juan mc cain is disaster bush cheney kennedy suck up, vote him mean vote billary. anything he is doing worse for this country, want war 100 year but let all border open. .and soldier war and replacing middle class for sweat labor people wrong choice, he is old idiot jerk. liberal want juan so he will be lose by clinton corrupt machine
- He is referring toZaw Htayand his lawyer Pho Phyu, Htay was sentenced to ten years in prison after he and about 50 other farmers from Magwe division filed a complaint regarding government land seizures. 2003 acres were seized 2 years ago by the government after the farmers refused to give in to pressure to grow sugar cain far a army operated sugar factory.
- At first it was damned bad news all round: the Mutiny kept spreading, Nana had sheered off after losing Cawnpore and was raising cain farther up-country, Delhi was still held by the pandies with our people banging away at it, and Havelock at Cawnpore didn't have the men or means to relieve Lucknow, only forty miles away, where Lawrence's garrison was hemmed in.
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