LekhoriLekhoriOf chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
The main office is actually one of the smaller rooms.
Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
main timbers
Full, sheer, undivided.
[…] I shall never forget the diabolical sneer which writhed Rashleigh's wayward features, as I was forced from the apartment by the main strength of two of these youthful Titans.
Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
Suck[y]. A Draught of Ale, Friend, for I'm main dry. / Pen[elope]. Fie! fie! Niece! Is that Liquor for a young Lady? Don't disparage your Family and Breeding!
Ellipsis of mainline (“to inject (a drug) directly into a vein”).
To mainly play a specific character or side, or with specific equipment, during a game.
He mains the same character as me in that game.
That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
There's a gas leak in the main outside the building.
A river in southern Germany, flowing from Bavaria to the Rhine.
A river in Northern Ireland, flowing into Lough Neagh.
A surname.
Ellipsis of Main Street, a street named "Main Street".
From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mæġen (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megenn...
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To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
A hand or match in a game of dice.
That writing is but juſt like dice, / And lucky mains make people wiſe: / That jumbled words, if fortune throw 'em, / Shall, well as Dryden, form a poem; […]
The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
Euery man hath not beene brought vp in the knowledge of toungs. And it chanceth often to the reader, as it doth to diceplayers, that gaine more by the bye then by the maine.
A basket for gathering grapes.
A main [hamper] Corbis vindemiatorius
Ellipsis of Main Street (“main street”), a central street of a community.