maine

name

1. (error-lua-exec)A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
2. (error-lua-exec)A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.

   “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.”

3. (error-lua-exec)A town in New York.
4. (error-lua-exec)A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
5. (error-lua-exec)A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
6. (error-lua-exec)University of Maine.
7. 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.
8. A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
9. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
10. A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
11. A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
12. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

noun

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete 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; […]”

adj

1. (alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete)Obsolete form of main.