A-māin’, adv.

adv. [Prefix a and main, q. v.] 1. With sudden force, strength, or violence; violently and suddenly. They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That stripling giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker. 2. (Naut.) Suddenly, or at once; as, “Let go amain.” Totten.