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That maybe maintained.

One who maintains.

One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God. South.

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

A kind of dance. See Allemande. Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

ll, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

Respects; compliments. [Obs.]

Rule; management. [Obs.] Chaucer.

he possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

See Germane.

tion or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.

The middle part of the main or sea. [Poetic] Chapman.

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [Obs.]

The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

minous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.