Amain

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əˈmeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

From a + main("strength, power, force").

Full definition of amain

Adverb

1. (archaic) With full force; forcefully, violently. from 16th c.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:So likewise turnde the Prince upon the Knight,
  And layd at him amaine with all his will and might.
• MiltonThey on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.
• 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, , line 87They spurred amain, their steeds were white:
2. (archaic) At full speed; in great haste. from 16th c.
• HolinshedThey fled amain.
• Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Chimes, VII, lines 5-6''The heavy rain it hurries amain''And heaven and the hurricane.
3. (UK dialectal) Out of control.
• 1790, Felling/Heworth, Errington:two waggons coming after me amain ...

French amener.

Verb

1. (nautical) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

Anagrams

• Amina, amnia, anima, mania