maine

plural maines

1. obsoleteObsolete form of main.

   No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

   1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of main.

1. error lua execA state of the United States. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.

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   These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.

   2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022

2. error lua execA town in Broome County, New York.
3. error lua execA town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
4. error lua execA river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
5. error lua execUniversity of Maine.

1. A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.

1. A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.

1. A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
2. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.

1. A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.

1. A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.