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  • 1The Main Ingredient — may refer to: The Main Ingredient (band), an American soul and R B group The Main Ingredient (Pete Rock CL Smooth album), 1994 The Main Ingredient (Shirley Horn album), 1995 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.… …

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  • 2The massacre in the Main Temple — of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan is an episode in the Spanish conquest of Mexico which occurred on May 10, 1520.While Hernán Cortés was in Tenochtitlan, he heard about other Spaniards arriving on the coast ndash; Pánfilo de Narváez had come from …

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  • 3The main chance — Chance Chance (ch[.a]ns), n. [F. chance, OF. cheance, fr. LL. cadentia a allusion to the falling of the dice), fr. L. cadere to fall; akin to Skr. [,c]ad to fall, L. cedere to yield, E. cede. Cf. {Cadence}.] 1. A supposed material or psychical… …

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  • 4For the main — Main Main, n. [AS. m[ae]gen strength, power, force; akin to OHG. magan, Icel. megin, and to E. may, v. [root]103. See {May}, v.] 1. Strength; force; might; violent effort. [Obs., except in certain phrases.] [1913 Webster] There were in this… …

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  • 5In the main — Main Main, n. [AS. m[ae]gen strength, power, force; akin to OHG. magan, Icel. megin, and to E. may, v. [root]103. See {May}, v.] 1. Strength; force; might; violent effort. [Obs., except in certain phrases.] [1913 Webster] There were in this… …

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  • 6in the main — {adv. phr.}, {formal} In most cases; generally; usually. * /In the main, small boys and dogs are good friends./ * /In the main, the pupils did well on the test./ …

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  • 7in the main — {adv. phr.}, {formal} In most cases; generally; usually. * /In the main, small boys and dogs are good friends./ * /In the main, the pupils did well on the test./ …

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  • 8WWF The Main Event — The Main Event was a professional wrestling television series, a spin off of the show WWF Saturday Night s Main Event and occasionally aired on NBC on Friday nights. Only the first three The Main Event episodes were shown live on NBC. The final… …

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  • 9To splice the main brace — Splice Splice (spl[imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spliced} (spl[imac]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Splicing}.] [D. splitsen, splitten; akin to G. splissen, Sw. splissa, Dan. splisse, and E. split; from the dividing or splitting the ends into separate… …

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  • 10Main Street — in Salinas, California For other uses, see Main Street (disambiguation). Main Street is the metonym for a generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, tow …

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