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Webster 1913 Edition
amain
a-main′
,Verb.
I.
(Naut.)
To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amain
AMA'IN
, adv.With force, strength or violence; violently; furiously; suddenly; at once.
What, when we fled amain.
Let go amain, in seamen's language or strike amain, is to let fall or lower at once.