Main

(mān.) [From A.S. mægn, power.] A term generally used as signifying chief or principal. Main, MAINE, or MAYN, a river of mid-Germany, formed by the confluence of the White and Red M., in Bavaria, 24 m. N.W. of Bayreuth, and thence taking aW. course till it embouches into the Rhine opposite Mentz. Length, 300 m. [s. 570]