amaine

adv

1. (alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of amain.

   “So likewiſe turnde the Prince vpon the Knight, / And layd at him amaine with all his will and might.”

   “[T]he Queene o'th Skie [ i.e., Juno], / Whoſe watry Arch, and meſſenger, am I. / Bids thee leaue theſe, & with her ſoueraigne grace, / Here on this graſſe-plot, in this very place / To come, and ſport: here [i.e., her] Peacocks flye amaine: / Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertaine.”

   “And rearing Lindis [a river] backward pressed / Shook all her trembling bankes amaine; / Then madly at the eygre's breast / Flung uppe her weltring walls again.”