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Main
MAIN, a. [L. magnus.]
1. Principal; chief; that which has most power in producing an effect, or which is mostly regarded in prospect; as the main branch or tributary stream of a river; the main timbers of an edifice; a main design; a main object.
Our main interest is to be as happy as we can, and as long as possible.
2. Mighty; vast; as the main abyss.
3. Important; powerful.
This young prince, with a train of young noblemen and gentlemen, not with any main army, came over to take possession of his patrimony.
MAIN, n. Strength; force; violent effort; as in the phrase, "with might and main."
1. The gross; the bulk; the greater part.
The main of them may be reduced to language and an improvement in wisdom--
2. The ocean; the great sea, as distinguished from rivers, bays, sounds and the like.
He fell, and struggling in the main--
3. The continent, as distinguished from an isle. We arrived at Nantucket on Saturday, but did not reach the main till Monday. In this use of the word, land is omitted; main for main land.
4. A hamper.
5. A course; a duct.
For the main, in the main, for the most part; in the greatest part.
MAIN, n. [L. manus, hand.] A hand at dice. We throw a merry main.
And lucky mains make people wise. [Not used.]
1. A match at cock fighting.
main appears in definitions for these words:
Abaft Abelians Abelites Abelonians Abide Aboard Acacians Act Admiral Adonists Advocating Aerians Affirm Affirmative Afore Aft After-cost After-sails Aid Alleghany Anabaptist Anathema Annex Ant Antecursor Antinomian Antisabbatarian Apollinarians Apostrophy Appanage Archpillar Arima Aside Assert Asserted Asserting Assertion Assertor Assertory Athanor Audeanism Augustinians Avouch Avouched Avouching Avow Avowry Back Backhouse Bamboo Baptist Barrator Battalia Battle Beaconage Beak Beam Bear Bed Beetling Belong Benefice Beneficiary Bilander Blaze Body Bolster Boom Bord-land Borough Bourgeois Brace Branch Bread Brig Brownism Bulk Burse Business By-concernment By-dependence Caboched Cap Carcass Careful Castle-ward Causidical Champerty Chantry Chard Charity Chartless Chess-tree Circumstantial Claim Claimed Claiming Clew-carnets Compass Complement Concern Concession Congregational Conserved Conserving Consist Conspirator Consubstantiation Contest Contraindicate Contraindication Corody Cost Countenance Courses Cross-road Cross-way Current Danegelt Debate Deep-waisted Defend Defendant Defended Defender Defending Defensible Defiance Derive Detachment Digress Digressing Digression Digressional Digressive Dimple Disavowing Dishonor Dismember Dismembered Dismemberment Dispute Diversion Dogger Dogmatical Drag Draw Drift Drops Earnestness Eat Eddish Entertain Epiphany Episode Equilibrium Espouse Exact Excursion Exhibition Exordium Fatalist Feeder Fellowship Fight Fire Flaccidness Flagellant Flux Fly Follow Force Foreignness Frigate-built Frigatoon Furnace Gaelic Galiot Garnet General Generality Generally Gist Good Goosewing Govern Gross Grow Guy Have Hedge Heresy Heretic Hide High Hobbler Hoist Hold Holding Housekeeper Howker Hurl Hydrant Imperial Import Impose Incident Incidentally Indefensible Independent Inductive Inosculation Intenable Introduction Isthmus Jehovist Jurisdiction Justify Jut Keep Ketch Kevel League Leech-line Lie Live Lower Loyalist Lvelihood Main Main-sail Main-sheet Main-top Main-yard Mainly Mainor Mainpernable Mainpernor Mainprize Maintain Maintainable Maintenance Make Manager Manichean Manicheism Manutenency Marriage Mast Materialism Materialist Member Might Monophysite Muniment Mysticism Necessitarian Neck Netting Neutrality Nominal Nominalist Notify Nourish Nurse Nursed Nursing Ocean Opiniaster Outguard Outhouse Outlying Outpart Outpost Outstand Outwork Paganism Pantheism Parent Parish Parsonage Patriotism Patronize Pauper Pendant Peninsula Pensionary Penthouse Person Personable Pertinaciously Picturesque Pierce Pinnacle Pique Platoon Plead Pleader Plenist Plumous Plutonian Point Polemic Polygamist Polytheist Poor Praemunire Prebend Preface Preliminary Premise Presbyterial Prestimony Pretension Prevalently Priscillianist Ptolemaic Puritan Pursuance Pyrophorus Quarter Quietism Quietist Radicle Ramification Ramify Re-echo Realist Rear-guard Reassert Reasserted Regard Religion Respire Respondent Restraint Retainer Run Ruthless Sabbatarian Sceptic Scholarship Schooner Scotish Second Semi-arianism Servitor Settlement Sexualist Shallop Sheet Ship Shroud Sight Single Slabby Slip Sloop Snow Solidly Solifidian Sophister Sorehon Sorn Sound Speck Splint Stalk Stand Stay Stay-tackle Stem Stiff Stiffly Stock Straggle Street Strength Stud Sublapsary Subsist Substance Substantially Support Supportable Supportance Supportation Supported Supporter Supporting Supralapsarian Surgy Sustain Sustainable Sustained Sustaining Sustenance Sustentation Swim Tally Tallying Tapping Tenable Tenet Terminist Thesis Thick Tiddle Topping-lift Torment Tower Transept Transubstantiator Triply-ribbed Trunk Truss Tung Ultimate Underaction Underplot Unflagging Unsustainable Untenable Uphold Upper Vaunt-mure Vavasor Veranda Vertigo Vindicate Vindicated Vindicator Votive Vouching Voyager Wale Ware Warrant Wing
Abaft Abelians Abelites Abelonians Abide Aboard Acacians Act Admiral Adonists Advocating Aerians Affirm Affirmative Afore Aft After-cost After-sails Aid Alleghany Anabaptist Anathema Annex Ant Antecursor Antinomian Antisabbatarian Apollinarians Apostrophy Appanage Archpillar Arima Aside Assert Asserted Asserting Assertion Assertor Assertory Athanor Audeanism Augustinians Avouch Avouched Avouching Avow Avowry Back Backhouse Bamboo Baptist Barrator Battalia Battle Beaconage Beak Beam Bear Bed Beetling Belong Benefice Beneficiary Bilander Blaze Body Bolster Boom Bord-land Borough Bourgeois Brace Branch Bread Brig Brownism Bulk Burse Business By-concernment By-dependence Caboched Cap Carcass Careful Castle-ward Causidical Champerty Chantry Chard Charity Chartless Chess-tree Circumstantial Claim Claimed Claiming Clew-carnets Compass Complement Concern Concession Congregational Conserved Conserving Consist Conspirator Consubstantiation Contest Contraindicate Contraindication Corody Cost Countenance Courses Cross-road Cross-way Current Danegelt Debate Deep-waisted Defend Defendant Defended Defender Defending Defensible Defiance Derive Detachment Digress Digressing Digression Digressional Digressive Dimple Disavowing Dishonor Dismember Dismembered Dismemberment Dispute Diversion Dogger Dogmatical Drag Draw Drift Drops Earnestness Eat Eddish Entertain Epiphany Episode Equilibrium Espouse Exact Excursion Exhibition Exordium Fatalist Feeder Fellowship Fight Fire Flaccidness Flagellant Flux Fly Follow Force Foreignness Frigate-built Frigatoon Furnace Gaelic Galiot Garnet General Generality Generally Gist Good Goosewing Govern Gross Grow Guy Have Hedge Heresy Heretic Hide High Hobbler Hoist Hold Holding Housekeeper Howker Hurl Hydrant Imperial Import Impose Incident Incidentally Indefensible Independent Inductive Inosculation Intenable Introduction Isthmus Jehovist Jurisdiction Justify Jut Keep Ketch Kevel League Leech-line Lie Live Lower Loyalist Lvelihood Main Main-sail Main-sheet Main-top Main-yard Mainly Mainor Mainpernable Mainpernor Mainprize Maintain Maintainable Maintenance Make Manager Manichean Manicheism Manutenency Marriage Mast Materialism Materialist Member Might Monophysite Muniment Mysticism Necessitarian Neck Netting Neutrality Nominal Nominalist Notify Nourish Nurse Nursed Nursing Ocean Opiniaster Outguard Outhouse Outlying Outpart Outpost Outstand Outwork Paganism Pantheism Parent Parish Parsonage Patriotism Patronize Pauper Pendant Peninsula Pensionary Penthouse Person Personable Pertinaciously Picturesque Pierce Pinnacle Pique Platoon Plead Pleader Plenist Plumous Plutonian Point Polemic Polygamist Polytheist Poor Praemunire Prebend Preface Preliminary Premise Presbyterial Prestimony Pretension Prevalently Priscillianist Ptolemaic Puritan Pursuance Pyrophorus Quarter Quietism Quietist Radicle Ramification Ramify Re-echo Realist Rear-guard Reassert Reasserted Regard Religion Respire Respondent Restraint Retainer Run Ruthless Sabbatarian Sceptic Scholarship Schooner Scotish Second Semi-arianism Servitor Settlement Sexualist Shallop Sheet Ship Shroud Sight Single Slabby Slip Sloop Snow Solidly Solifidian Sophister Sorehon Sorn Sound Speck Splint Stalk Stand Stay Stay-tackle Stem Stiff Stiffly Stock Straggle Street Strength Stud Sublapsary Subsist Substance Substantially Support Supportable Supportance Supportation Supported Supporter Supporting Supralapsarian Surgy Sustain Sustainable Sustained Sustaining Sustenance Sustentation Swim Tally Tallying Tapping Tenable Tenet Terminist Thesis Thick Tiddle Topping-lift Torment Tower Transept Transubstantiator Triply-ribbed Trunk Truss Tung Ultimate Underaction Underplot Unflagging Unsustainable Untenable Uphold Upper Vaunt-mure Vavasor Veranda Vertigo Vindicate Vindicated Vindicator Votive Vouching Voyager Wale Ware Warrant Wing
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