Definition of main

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Main (v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean..

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Homoeomerous :: Homoeomerous (a.) Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
Mostly :: Mostly (adv.) For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.
Vinculum :: Vinculum (n.) A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.
Digress :: Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking..
Fog :: Fog (n.) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.
Main :: Main (a.) Vast; huge.
Backhouse :: Backhouse (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.
Mytilotoxine :: Mytilotoxine (n.) A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood..
Espousal :: Espousal (n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel..
Adhesiveness :: Adhesiveness (n.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse..
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever..
Adoptionist :: Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Germain :: Germain (a.) See Germane.
Course :: Course (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc..
Countercurrent :: Countercurrent (n.) A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
Doryphoros :: Doryphoros (n.) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us..
Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.
Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent..
Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli..
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