Akademik

main
1. adjective /meɪn/
Principal, most important.
2. noun /meɪn/
a) The mainland.

The highest land on the mayne, yet it was but low, we called Keales hill, and these uninhabited Isles, Russels Isles.

b) The high seas.

Tashtegos long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes [...]all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.


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