Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region and former province of northwest France south of Normandy. United with Anjou in 1126, it passed to England when Henry Plantagenet became king in 1154. Maine reverted to the French crown in 1481.
- A state of the northeast United States. It was admitted as the 23rd state in 1820. Explored by Europeans in 1602, the region was annexed by Massachusetts in 1652. Maine's northern boundary with New Brunswick was settled by a treaty with Great Britain in 1842. Augusta is the capital and Portland the largest city.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun One of the New England States.
- proper noun any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, esp. one resembling that enacted in the State of Maine. At present, the state of Maine sells such beverages in its own stores.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
province in northwestFrance , centred on Le Mans - proper noun The northeasternmost
state of theUnited States of America . Capital:Augusta - proper noun A
town in Marathon County,Wisconsin . - proper noun A
town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. - proper noun A
town in Broome County,New York .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state in New England
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Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press ONE MORNING IN MAINE: After a relentless stretch of dreary weather, the sun made a dramatic return to Maine in this brilliant sunrise captured near Ram Island Ledge Light at the mouth of Portland Harbor, Thursday.
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ANGUS KING (I), FORMER MAINE GOVERNOR: I think it goes back into history and location a little bit away from the rest of the country. 100 years, the people who worked here and built Maine were independent-type people, farmers, fishermen, and they are about as independent as they get.
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PROTESTING AEGIS IN MAINE AND SOUTH KOREA yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'PROTESTING AEGIS IN MAINE AND SOUTH KOREA'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Another Aegis destroyer was "Christened" in Maine and on the same day activists went underwater in South Korea to hold banners in the coral reefs opposing a planned Navy base where the Aegis would be deployed.
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MAINE -- The Department of Justice's response to inquiries sent by Maine, Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey about possible illegal wiretapping has been to sue the states for enforcing state law!
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Justice Department Quashes Wiretapping Inquiries 2006
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Justice Department Quashes Wiretapping Inquiries'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'MAINE -- The Department of Justice\'s response to inquiries sent by Maine, Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey about possible illegal wiretapping has been to sue the states for enforcing state law!'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Justice Department Quashes Wiretapping Inquiries 2006
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MAINE: Benefits 41,000 workers in Maine, representing 12.2 percent of all hourly workers in the state.
Minimum Wage Raise Benefits On State By State Basis ITY National Archives 1996
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AUGUSTA, MAINE - An American citizen on a flight from Paris to Atlanta claimed to have a fake passport and said he had explosives in his luggage, forcing federal air marshals to intervene and the plane to land in Maine, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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AUGUSTA, MAINE: A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell cancer, although there is no consensus among ...
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MAINE 67, STONY BROOK 61 Troy Barnies scored 12 of his 18 points in the second half as Maine (10-6, 2-1 Northeast) erased a 10-point halftime deficit to beat visiting Stony Brook (11-7, 3-2).
NYT > Home Page 2010
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BAR HARBOR, MAINE: US President Barack Obama and his family packed a full day of tennis, swimming and hiking into a weekend getaway in the northeastern state of Maine on Saturday.
The Times of India 2010
Mary2 commented on the word Maine
Maine -- proper noun? Not only the name of a U.S. state but also of a famous battleship, sunk in the Spanish-American War. A google turned it up not only in the name of a movie, "Remember the Maine," but also as part of the name of a cocktail, also "Remember the Maine."
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/07/remember-the-maine-cocktail-recipe.html
June 27, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word Maine
Maineisms.
January 1, 2011