† mainen.¹

Forms: late Middle English–1600s mayne, 1500s maine; Scottish pre-1700 maine, pre-1700 mane, pre-1700 mayn, pre-1700 mayne, pre-1700 myan.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: demeine n.; manchet n.

Etymology: Either shortened < demeine n. (compare also pandemain n.), or shortened < manchet n. (compare compounds manchet flour n., manchet bread n. at manchet n. Compounds).

Obsolete. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).

1. In full maine flour. Flour of the finest quality. Also in compounds, as maine multure n. the portion of maine flour payable as multure.

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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > fine flour

marrow of wheateOE

gruel1333

maine flourc1440

tearc1440

manchet floura1450

pollen1523

amyl1577

blancheen1601

smeddum1808

cones1844

Vienna1868

Spanish white1882

c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 43 (MED) Item capiatur melle, olium, þe maynflour, plumbum, rubium. Emplastetur & apponatur super emerawdes.

c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 70 One yoman in this office [of Bakehouse] for the kinge's mouthe recevyng the mayne floure of the Sergeaunt, by tayle.

1523 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 217 The baillies and counsall ordanis all the maisteris of the baxter craft till content and pay to the fermoraris thair mayne mutter, that is to say, of ilk iiij laid that thai brek aboue ane pek of mayne flour, and gif thai brek les to pay na thing.

1524–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 220 Als thai ordane the saidis baxteris to pay the mayne flour to the saidis fermoraris as vs and wont hes bene in tymes bygane.

1595 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1927) V. 142 The brekking, bayking and using of mayne floure and mayne breid is..superfluous..in sic an dirth.

1615 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1931) VI. 129 Ffindis expedient that it sall be licenciat..to the baxteris of this burgh to brek mayne flour.

2. In full maine bread. Bread of the finest quality; = pandemain n., demeine n. Also (Scottish, rare) breid of mane.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > fine bread

demeine1288

wastelc1300

pandemainc1390

wastel breadc1405

maine bread1443

mancheta1450

manchet breada1450

temse-loaf1552

court-bread1600

bara-picklet1611

temse-bread1611

1443 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 7 It is..ordanit that na baxter baik na mayne breid to sell fra hine furthwart, saiffing allenarly at Witsounday [etc.].

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 285 in Poems (1981) 15 And mane full fyne scho brocht in steid off geill.

1509 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 5 And at tharbe skallapis of mayne breid.

1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 160 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 265 And eik ane creill full of breid of mane.

1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 355 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 271 Mayne breid.

1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 9^v But these and all other the mayne bread of York excelleth, for that it is of the finest floure of the Wheat well tempered.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 337 Quhyte breid, maine breid, and gingebreid.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 23 Good bread is made thereof, especially that of Yorke, which they call maine bread.

1622 in J. J. Cartwright Chapter Hist. Yorks. (1872) 281 Bakers..disobedient in not bakeinge of mayn bread beinge an auncient mistery used in this cittie and in no other citties of this kingdome.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

Mainen.²

Brit.

/meɪn/, U.S.

/meɪn/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Maine.

Etymology: < the name of the U.S. State of Maine (named in an English grant of 1622) < maine , variant of main n.¹ in sense ‘mainland’ (see sense 4a s.v.), as opposed to the many offshore islands encountered by the first, sea-borne, explorers.

U.S. History.

a. Maine law n. a law forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, such as was first enacted in Maine in 1851. Cf. liquor law n. at liquor n. Compounds 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > types of laws > [noun] > commercial or revenue

sizea1300

assizea1330

indiction1586

poll bill1641

frumentarian law1652

statute of the staple1657

statute of frauds1678

Gin Act1730

Pot Act1733

Stamp Act1765

Stamp-Bill1765

corn law1766

Bumboat Act1796

Maine law1852

permissive bill1864

lemon law1981

1852 Lantern (N.Y.) 1 119/2 Does the Maine Law, in abolishing the use of liquors, include the Cotton-Gin?

1853 Illustr. London News 26 Nov. 438/1 The Earl of Harrington approves of a Maine law for England.

1855 Knickerbocker 45 479 They have the Maine Law down below.

1860 W. L. Sargant R. Owen & Social Philos. xix. 216 Nor had he had recourse to a Maine law.

1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 76 But drunkenness becoming common,..spirits were banished, the apple orchards cut down,..‘Maine Laws’ were finally passed.

1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 673 Its special suggestiveness resides in the fact that it originates with the friends of the Maine law.

1897 Encycl. 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.

1919 E. B. Gordon (title) The Maine law.

1960 R. K. Webb Harriet Martineau xi. 346 She saw the Maine Law..as the exercise of the will of a democratic people.

†b. Maine law man n. a prohibitionist. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > prohibition > prohibitionist

prohibitionist1830

Maine law man1855

dry1888

pussyfoot1919

pussyfooter1923

1855 Chicago Weekly Times 18 Oct. 1/2 He had been charged..with being a Maine law man, and a woman's rights man.

1872 E. Chamberlin Struggle of '72 546 Governor Brown..is every few months as rabid a teetotaler and Maine law man as he was the opposite a month before.

a. Maine cat n. = Maine Coon n. at sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of

blue cat1771

chartreuse1838

Maltese1857

Maltese cat1857

Abyssinian1871

Abyssinian cat1871

Russian Blue1872

Malay cat1881

chinchilla1889

longhair1889

Russian longhair1889

Maine cat1900

short-hair1903

British Shorthair1923

British Blue1929

Burmese cat1939

rex1958

rag doll1970

Maine Coon1971

1900 H. M. Winslow Concerning Cats 159 (caption) Swampscott: fine Maine Cat: owned by Mrs Fred Everett Smith, Chicago.

1903 F. R. Pierce in F. R. Pierce Bk. of Cats 325 From my earliest recollection I have had one to several long haired cats of that variety often called Maine Cats... As early as 1861 my younger brother and myself jointly owned a beautiful long-haired black, pointed with white.

1953 D. Bryant Cat Bk. vii. i. 227 The Maine cat is a long-haired breed, found mostly in the New England states. These cats are beautiful and make excellent pets.

1986 M. Hornidge That Yankee Cat ii. 12 He belonged jointly to Mrs F. R. Pierce and her younger brother and was referred to as a Maine cat, which was the breed designation at the time.

b. Maine Coon n. [ < Maine n.² + coon n.¹ (coon refers to a former folk belief that this cat is part racoon (see quot. 1989), apparently supported by the bushy tail and the tabby colouring common in the breed)] a breed of large, long-haired domestic cat originating in New England; a cat of this breed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of

blue cat1771

chartreuse1838

Maltese1857

Maltese cat1857

Abyssinian1871

Abyssinian cat1871

Russian Blue1872

Malay cat1881

chinchilla1889

longhair1889

Russian longhair1889

Maine cat1900

short-hair1903

British Shorthair1923

British Blue1929

Burmese cat1939

rex1958

rag doll1970

Maine Coon1971

1900 H. M. Winslow Concerning Cats 218 There is in this country a variety known as the ‘coon cat’, which is handsome, especially in the solid black. Its native home is in Maine.]

1971 in A. McCaffrey Ring of Fear vii. 148 He's a special breed of cat... A Maine coon cat.

1978 Washington Post 15 Dec. 3/4 Sunday's contenders are the longhairs—Persians, Angoras, Maine Coons.

1989 Encycl. Brit. VII. 467/3 The Maine coon cat..named in the mistaken belief that it is part raccoon and part cat.

1993 Cat World July 50/3 (advt.) Maine Coon kittens pretty Blue Tortie Silvers for loving pets.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	maine
释义	† mainen.¹ Forms: late Middle English–1600s mayne, 1500s maine; Scottish pre-1700 maine, pre-1700 mane, pre-1700 mayn, pre-1700 mayne, pre-1700 myan. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: demeine n.; manchet n. Etymology: Either shortened < demeine n. (compare also pandemain n.), or shortened < manchet n. (compare compounds manchet flour n., manchet bread n. at manchet n. Compounds). Obsolete. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). 1. In full maine flour. Flour of the finest quality. Also in compounds, as maine multure n. the portion of maine flour payable as multure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > fine flour marrow of wheateOE gruel1333 maine flourc1440 tearc1440 manchet floura1450 pollen1523 amyl1577 blancheen1601 smeddum1808 cones1844 Vienna1868 Spanish white1882 c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 43 (MED) Item capiatur melle, olium, þe maynflour, plumbum, rubium. Emplastetur & apponatur super emerawdes. c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 70 One yoman in this office [of Bakehouse] for the kinge's mouthe recevyng the mayne floure of the Sergeaunt, by tayle. 1523 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 217 The baillies and counsall ordanis all the maisteris of the baxter craft till content and pay to the fermoraris thair mayne mutter, that is to say, of ilk iiij laid that thai brek aboue ane pek of mayne flour, and gif thai brek les to pay na thing. 1524–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 220 Als thai ordane the saidis baxteris to pay the mayne flour to the saidis fermoraris as vs and wont hes bene in tymes bygane. 1595 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1927) V. 142 The brekking, bayking and using of mayne floure and mayne breid is..superfluous..in sic an dirth. 1615 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1931) VI. 129 Ffindis expedient that it sall be licenciat..to the baxteris of this burgh to brek mayne flour. 2. In full maine bread. Bread of the finest quality; = pandemain n., demeine n. Also (Scottish, rare) breid of mane. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > fine bread demeine1288 wastelc1300 pandemainc1390 wastel breadc1405 maine bread1443 mancheta1450 manchet breada1450 temse-loaf1552 court-bread1600 bara-picklet1611 temse-bread1611 1443 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 7 It is..ordanit that na baxter baik na mayne breid to sell fra hine furthwart, saiffing allenarly at Witsounday [etc.]. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 285 in Poems (1981) 15 And mane full fyne scho brocht in steid off geill. 1509 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 5 And at tharbe skallapis of mayne breid. 1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 160 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 265 And eik ane creill full of breid of mane. 1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 355 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 271 Mayne breid. 1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 9^v But these and all other the mayne bread of York excelleth, for that it is of the finest floure of the Wheat well tempered. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 337 Quhyte breid, maine breid, and gingebreid. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 23 Good bread is made thereof, especially that of Yorke, which they call maine bread. 1622 in J. J. Cartwright Chapter Hist. Yorks. (1872) 281 Bakers..disobedient in not bakeinge of mayn bread beinge an auncient mistery used in this cittie and in no other citties of this kingdome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). Mainen.² Brit. /meɪn/, U.S. /meɪn/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Maine. Etymology: < the name of the U.S. State of Maine (named in an English grant of 1622) < maine , variant of main n.¹ in sense ‘mainland’ (see sense 4a s.v.), as opposed to the many offshore islands encountered by the first, sea-borne, explorers. U.S. History. 1. a. Maine law n. a law forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, such as was first enacted in Maine in 1851. Cf. liquor law n. at liquor n. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > commercial or revenue sizea1300 assizea1330 indiction1586 poll bill1641 frumentarian law1652 statute of the staple1657 statute of frauds1678 Gin Act1730 Pot Act1733 Stamp Act1765 Stamp-Bill1765 corn law1766 Bumboat Act1796 Maine law1852 permissive bill1864 lemon law1981 1852 Lantern (N.Y.) 1 119/2 Does the Maine Law, in abolishing the use of liquors, include the Cotton-Gin? 1853 Illustr. London News 26 Nov. 438/1 The Earl of Harrington approves of a Maine law for England. 1855 Knickerbocker 45 479 They have the Maine Law down below. 1860 W. L. Sargant R. Owen & Social Philos. xix. 216 Nor had he had recourse to a Maine law. 1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 76 But drunkenness becoming common,..spirits were banished, the apple orchards cut down,..‘Maine Laws’ were finally passed. 1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 673 Its special suggestiveness resides in the fact that it originates with the friends of the Maine law. 1897 Encycl. 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. 1919 E. B. Gordon (title) The Maine law. 1960 R. K. Webb Harriet Martineau xi. 346 She saw the Maine Law..as the exercise of the will of a democratic people. †b. Maine law man n. a prohibitionist. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > prohibition > prohibitionist prohibitionist1830 Maine law man1855 dry1888 pussyfoot1919 pussyfooter1923 1855 Chicago Weekly Times 18 Oct. 1/2 He had been charged..with being a Maine law man, and a woman's rights man. 1872 E. Chamberlin Struggle of '72 546 Governor Brown..is every few months as rabid a teetotaler and Maine law man as he was the opposite a month before. 2. a. Maine cat n. = Maine Coon n. at sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of blue cat1771 chartreuse1838 Maltese1857 Maltese cat1857 Abyssinian1871 Abyssinian cat1871 Russian Blue1872 Malay cat1881 chinchilla1889 longhair1889 Russian longhair1889 Maine cat1900 short-hair1903 British Shorthair1923 British Blue1929 Burmese cat1939 rex1958 rag doll1970 Maine Coon1971 1900 H. M. Winslow Concerning Cats 159 (caption) Swampscott: fine Maine Cat: owned by Mrs Fred Everett Smith, Chicago. 1903 F. R. Pierce in F. R. Pierce Bk. of Cats 325 From my earliest recollection I have had one to several long haired cats of that variety often called Maine Cats... As early as 1861 my younger brother and myself jointly owned a beautiful long-haired black, pointed with white. 1953 D. Bryant Cat Bk. vii. i. 227 The Maine cat is a long-haired breed, found mostly in the New England states. These cats are beautiful and make excellent pets. 1986 M. Hornidge That Yankee Cat ii. 12 He belonged jointly to Mrs F. R. Pierce and her younger brother and was referred to as a Maine cat, which was the breed designation at the time. b. Maine Coon n. [ < Maine n.² + coon n.¹ (coon refers to a former folk belief that this cat is part racoon (see quot. 1989), apparently supported by the bushy tail and the tabby colouring common in the breed)] a breed of large, long-haired domestic cat originating in New England; a cat of this breed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of blue cat1771 chartreuse1838 Maltese1857 Maltese cat1857 Abyssinian1871 Abyssinian cat1871 Russian Blue1872 Malay cat1881 chinchilla1889 longhair1889 Russian longhair1889 Maine cat1900 short-hair1903 British Shorthair1923 British Blue1929 Burmese cat1939 rex1958 rag doll1970 Maine Coon1971 1900 H. M. Winslow Concerning Cats 218 There is in this country a variety known as the ‘coon cat’, which is handsome, especially in the solid black. Its native home is in Maine.] 1971 in A. McCaffrey Ring of Fear vii. 148 He's a special breed of cat... A Maine coon cat. 1978 Washington Post 15 Dec. 3/4 Sunday's contenders are the longhairs—Persians, Angoras, Maine Coons. 1989 Encycl. Brit. VII. 467/3 The Maine coon cat..named in the mistaken belief that it is part raccoon and part cat. 1993 Cat World July 50/3 (advt.) Maine Coon kittens pretty Blue Tortie Silvers for loving pets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1440n.²1852
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