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amain

From .

(en adverb)

(archaic) With full force; forcefully, violently.

*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.

* Milton

They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain .

* 1793, , line 87

They spurred amain , their steeds were white:

(archaic) At full speed; in great haste.

* Holinshed

They fled amain .

* , Chimes , VII, lines 5-6

''The heavy rain it hurries amain

''And heaven and the hurricane.

Out of control.

* 1790 , Felling/Heworth, Errington :

two waggons coming after me amain [...]

(etyl) amener.

(en verb)

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

* ---- ==Jèrriais==

(roa-jer-adj)

of easy use

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