amain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf With all of one's might; mightily; forcefully, violently.

   “And in beholding how he [the cyclops Polyphemus] fed and belked vp againe His bloody vittels at his mouth, and vttred out amayne The clottred gobbets mixt with wyne, I [Odysseus] thus ſurmyſde: like lot Hangs ouer my head now, and I muſt alſo go to pot.”

2. zarf At full speed; also, in great haste.

   “At length the Danes beeing aſſayled on eche ſide, both a front before, and on their backes behinde, oppreſſed as it were wyth multitude, they threwe downe theyr weapons and fled amain.”

3. zarf Out of control.

   “The waggonway lay near the Windmill Hills and went down the north side of the hills to the Rivir Tine, and at the Coal steath [= staithe] Mathew Gray lived. I was about hauf way down the bank when thur was two Waggons Coming after me Amain [= broken loose and running away].”

4. zarf Exceedingly; overmuch.

   “Riches are mine, Fortune is in my hand; They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, While Virtue, Valour, Wiſdom ſit in want.”

5. fiil To lower (the sail of a ship, particularly the topsail).
6. fiil To decrease or reduce (something).
7. fiil To lower the topsail in token of surrender; to yield.