maintainer (mantaner)

One who maintains, supports, sustains, or upholds. In legal use, maintain or (which see). O ye trait ours and maintainers of madne e, Unto your folly I ascribe all my paine. Lamentation of Mary Magdalen , 1. 253. maintaining-wheel (man-ta'ning-hwēl), n. In a watch, a wheel impelled by a spring, which prevents a watch from stopping while being wound; a going-wheel. IMG:content-0104.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] Maioidea (mā-yoiʼdē-ä), n. pl. [NL., maioidean (mā-yoi'dē-an), a. Resembling a maioid; having the characters of the Maioidea.