mainest

Adjective

main (not comparable)

1. Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
   • The main office is actually one of the smaller rooms.
2. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
   • main timbers

   Synonyms:

   largest

3. (archaic, usually, strength) 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.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
4. (dialectal) Big; angry.
5. Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
6. (obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
   • And now that Current with main Fury ran / (The Stop remov'd that did the Courſe defend) / Unto the full of Miſchief, that began / T' an univerſal Ruin to extend; […]1718, Samuel Daniel, “The History of the Civil War. Book V.”, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History. […], volume II, London: Printed for R. Gosling, […] W. Mears...

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