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- English Word Mainmast Definition The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.
- English Word Mainor Definition A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.
- English Word Mainpernable Definition Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
- English Word Mainpernor Definition A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.
- English Word Mainpin Definition A kingbolt.
- English Word Mainprise Definition A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.
- English Word Mainprise Definition Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.
- English Word Mainprise Definition To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.
- English Word Mainprised Definition of Mainprise
- English Word Mainprising Definition of Mainprise
- English Word Mains Definition The farm attached to a mansion house.
- English Word Mainsail Definition The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
- English Word Mainsheet Definition One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.
- English Word Mainspring Definition The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
- English Word Mainstay Definition The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
- English Word Mainstay Definition Main support; principal dependence.
- English Word Mainswear Definition To swear falsely.
- English Word Maintain Definition To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.
- English Word Maintain Definition To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.
- English Word Maintain Definition To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.