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Maine, n.2 U.S.|meɪn|
a. The name of the State of Maine used in Maine (liquor) law, a law forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors; hence applied to similar laws (see quot. 1897).
1852Lantern (N.Y.) I. 119/2 Does the Maine Law, in abolishing the use of liquors, include the Cotton-Gin? 1853Illustr. London News 26 Nov. 438/1 The Earl of Harrington approves of a Maine law for England. 1855Knickerbocker XLV. 479 They have the Maine Law down below. 1860W. L. Sargant Robert Owen & his Social Philos. xix. 216 Nor had he had recourse to a Maine law. 1864T. H. Nichols 40 Yrs. Amer. Life I. 76 But drunkenness becoming common,..spirits were banished, the apple orchards cut down,..‘Maine Laws’ were finally passed. 1871Scribner's Monthly I. 673 Its special suggestiveness resides in the fact that it originates with the friends of the Maine law. 1897Encycl. Social Reform 1107/1 A prohibitory law was passed in Maine in 1846, and in 1851 a more stringent one, including the provision for the seizure and destruction of intoxicating liquors (known as the ‘Maine Law’..) was enacted... Vermont in 1852, New Hampshire in 1855, and Connecticut in 1854, passed the Maine law. 1960R. K. Webb H. Martineau xi. 346 She saw the Maine Law..as the exercise of the will of a democratic people.
b. Maine law man: a prohibitionist.
1858Leisure Hour 3 June 352/2 Upon the extensive mines..are large numbers of teetotallers and Maine Law men.
Add: Hence Mainer n., a native or inhabitant of the State of Maine.
1879Harper's Mag. LVIII. 799/2 An elder in his church was present, a way-down-East ‘Mainer’, as they are called in this region. [1938K. Roberts Trending into Maine vii. 147 The chef had made hash for which no State-of-Mainer would need to apologize.] 1977Washington Post 11 Oct. b1 One did see the town constable and any number of old ‘Mainers’ in thermal hunting jackets, baseball caps, and Mr. L. L. Bean's famous Maine Hunting Shoe. 1990Yankee Mar. 106/2 Like Down East Mainers who are suspicious of people and influences from ‘away’, many New England residents automatically give the benefit of the doubt to foods produced in the region. |