Definition of Maining

1. main [v] - See also: main

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maining

mainbooms
mainbrace
mainbraces
maincrop
maindoor
maindoors
maindrag
mained
mainest
mainframe
mainframe computer
mainframelike
mainframes
mainie
mainies
maining (current term)
mainland
mainland China
mainland Chinese
mainlander
mainlanders
mainlands
mainline
mainlined
mainliner
mainliners
mainlines
mainlining
mainly
mainmast

Literary usage of Maining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"These day to meditation, chant the Divine Office or sing maining there till the end of the eighteenth century; at Turnhout is especially devoted to ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"Our men moved forward in admirable order, pre- maining regiments of my brigades, the Eighth enemy, yielding in all directions, loses his battery and Ninth ..."

3. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"... and being or re- J maining in any office appertaining to any Court of Justice, or in any of Her Majesty's castles, palaces, or houses, ..."

4. A General Digest of the Law of Corporations: Presenting the American by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1869)
"... maining land of riparian owners. По. of L. 1855, Wright v. Scolt, 84 Eng. L. & Eq. 1. 64. ... maining ..."

5. Commercialism and Journalism by Hamilton Holt (1909)
"maining two thirds are devoted to news, politics, and family reading. Undoubtedly there are many contributing causes which have made the periodical industry ..."

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