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Sain vs Saun - What's the difference?

sain | saun |

As a verb sain

is .

As a noun saun is

a male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.

sain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
  • To make the sign of the cross.
  • (archaic) To bless, to keep from evil influence.
    • 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
    The child was sained then. Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.

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    saun

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.
  • * 1810 , Decoy Elephants Catching a Male'', in Enos Bronson (editor), ''Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines , Volume 3, page 123,
    • Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies'' up to the ''saun''''', yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the ''koomkies'' to the '''''saun , towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.
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