Amain: Definition and part of speech

Amain

  1. v. i. To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.
  2. n. With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
  3. n. At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.
  4. v. t. To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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