mass 
6. In fntnm., the terminal joints collectively of 
an antenna when 1 hey arc enlarged ami closely 
appresseil I o each other, forming a < lava or club. 
7. A large bunch of strung bends (12 small 
hunches I'listeneil together! Blue mass. SceWiw- 
Buccal mass, See immii. Center of mass. 
seeiv/ifivi. Cleavage-mass, tttthatagt, Explod- 
ing mass, in cephalopoda. Nee extract uiulcr xumnolo- 
phiirr. Flat masses. See blanket -dc/xml. Levy In 
mass, see friv/i. The masses, tin- great body of the 
people, especially of the working class and the l\\rr 
orders; the jiopulace. 
mass- (mas), r. [< wm.s-.s-, n.] I. hvnts. 1. To 
form into a mass; collect into masses; assem- 
ble in one body or in close conjunction: as, to 
niiixn troops at a certain place; to mass the 
points of an argument. 
The fragmentary produce of much toil, 
In a dim heap, fact and surmise together 
Confusedly manned as when acquired. 
Brou'Hiny, Paracelsus. 
2f. To strengthen, as a building for the purpose 
of fortification. 
They feared the French might, with ftllingormam'n^the 
house, or else hy fortifying, make such a piece as might 
annoy the haven. Uayteard. 
II. iiitnnis. To collect in masses ; assemble 
in groups or in force. 
The rebels mowed in the north-west angle of the Mem- 
phis and Charleston and the Mobile and Ohio railroads. 
17. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 418. 
mass 3 t (mas), n. See mn 2 . 
Mass constable, I have other manner of matter 
To bring you aliout than tills. 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 1. 
massa (mas'ii), . A corruption of nuitfr l . 
[Xegro dialect, U. S.] 
Massacb.usettensian(ma8-a-chS-9e-ten'si-an), 
. [X NL. Mdxxdcliiisetteiisis, < Massachusetts, 
a name of Amer. Ind. origin.] A native or 
an inhabitant of the State of Massachusetts. 
[Rare.] 
In this society of MassachusettvHsiaHs, then, there is . . . 
a moral and political equality of rights and duties among 
all the individuals. ./. Adanu, Works, IV. 302. 
massacre (mas'a-ker), n. [< F. massacre (ML. 
iiia;arriitm), massacre, killing, also the head of 
a stag newly killed ; appar. of Teut. origin, and 
prob. < LG. matxkeH, malzgen, cut, hew, == D. 
miitsen, maul, kill, = G. metzen, cut, kill, > metze.- 
/ei, massacre : see maso>i.~\ 1. The indiscrimi- 
nate killing of human beings ; the unnecessary 
slaughter of a number of persons, as in barba- 
rous warfare or persecution, or for revenge or 
plunder: as, the massacre of Glencoe: some- 
times applied also to the wholesale killing of 
wild animals. 
Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on, 
And rebels' arms triumph in massacret. 
Shalt., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. 14. 
2. In her., a pair of antlers or attires attached 
to a piece of the skull, used as a bearing Mas- 
sacre of the Innocents. 9eeinnocent,n. =8yn. Massacre, 
Butchery, Carnage. Massacre denotes the indiscriminate 
and general slaughter of many ; butchery a ruthless, un- 
sparing, and cruel slaughter, as though it were done at the 
shambles ; carnage a great slaughter, suggesting the piled- 
np dead of the battle neld. See Itilli. 
massacre (mas'a-ker), r. t.; pret. and pp. massa- 
cred, ppr. lua.txneriiiii. [< miixxncre, n.] To kill 
with attendant circumstances of atrocity; 
butcher ; slaughter : commonly used in refer- 
ence to the killing of a large number of human 
beings at once, who are not in a condition to 
defend themselves. 
The cohort was massacred by the frande of the Agrip- 
pinensis. .% //. Sarile, tr. of Tacitus, p. 180. 
Do the locks bristle and the eyebrows arch 
For grouse or partridge massacred in March ? 
Scott, The Poacher. 
= Syn. Mmder, Slaughter, etc. See WKl. 
massacrer (mas'a-krer), n. One who massacres. 
( Rare.] 
We have put wax into onr ears to shut them up against 
the tender soothing strains of regicides, assassins, inassa- 
rrrrtt, and septeinhrlsers. Burkf, A Regicide Peace, i, 
massacroust (mas'a-krtis), a. [< massacre + 
-mix.'] Cruelly murderous. 
Theyr mindes benuinmcd with the massacrmut mon- 
strousness of thys quick marshail-law. 
Sash, Christ's Teares over Jerusalem. 
massage't, " An obsolete form of message. 
massage'-' (rna-sazh'), n. [< F. massage, < ains- 
xi r, Or. [latmctv, knead: see maxx'2.~\ In tticru)>., 
the act or art of applying intermittent pressure 
and strain to the muscles ami other accessible 
tissues of the patient. The means employed are rub- 
I'iiiL". kniMding. anil lijtht piMiiidiiij-, combined ordinarily 
with mure or U'ss additional stimulation of the skin, as by 
friction and slapping. This manipulation further* the 
removal of lymph from tin- parts, which is especially 
needful when the Ijmphatie How is sluggish through lack 
.'{(140 
of muscular exercise; it apparently quickens the blood- 
i -in illation through the part, and furnishes gentle vax>- 
motor exercise ; it acts possibly as a direct trophic stimu- 
lus to muscular and sustentacular tissues; hy stretching 
llgamentons structures It maintains or Increases supple 
new.; in the abdomen It stimulates and aids peristalsis; 
and as a general stimulation of sensory nerves It may af- 
fect favorably the nutrition of the central nervous system. 
It Is represented in the customs of many primitive peo- 
I'l and in a developed form constitutes a valuable re- 
source of modern scientific therapeutics. 
massage- (ma-sazh'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. mas- 
saged, ppr. massaging. [< massage^, n.] In 
iiii-il., to treat by the process culled 
Although abdominal massage will effect a great deal of 
good, it wilt not be productive of lasting benefit if we 
omit to wastage the spine. Lancet, No. 3418, p. 4*28. 
massagiert, . A Middle English form of mes- 
*t infer. 
massagist (ma -sa' /.hist), n. [< massage^ + 
-ixt.~\ One who practises massage. 
In a tibel action yesterday . . . for a slashing criticism 
hy one massagist of another's book, Judge D -- charged 
against the prosecution. A'eir York Tribune, May 30, 1889. 
Massalia (ma-sa'li-fi), w. [NL., < Gr. Jtaaaa- 
/.la = L. Massilia, Marseilles.] The twentieth 
of the planetoids, discovered by De Gasparis, 
at Naples, in 1852. Also Massilia. 
Massalian 1 (ma-sa'li-an), . Same as Euchite. 
Massalian- (ma-sa'li-an), n. Same as ffexy- 
i-lldxl. 
mass-area (mas'a're-ji), . See the quotation. 
When a material particle moves from one point to ano- 
ther, twice the area swept out by the vector of the particle 
multiplied by the mass of the particle is called the mans- 
ana of the displacement of the particle with respect to 
the origin from which the vector is drawn. 
MamceU, Matter and Motion, LXVIII. 
Massaridae, Massaris, etc. See Masarida; etc. 
massasauga (mas-a-sa'gii), n. [Amer. Ind.] 
One of the small hut very venomous rattle- 
snakes which inhabit prairies in the western 
United States and Territories, such as Crotalti- 
phortis tergeminus (Sistruruscatenatus). The top 
of the head is covered with regular plates, as In Innocuous 
serpents, not with scales as In most rattlesnakes ; the pit 
between the eye and the nose is present, as in all Crttta- 
liilir. These snakes are of dark blotched coloration, and 
a foot or two long. They are also called suleiripert and 
sideliners, from their habit of wriggling sidewise. Tile 
black massasauga Is a very dark-colored species or variety, 
C. kirtlandi. 
mass-bell (mas'bel), w. Same as sacring bell 
(which see, under bell 1 ). 
Then wjth holy water sprinkled 
All the ship; the mass-bells tinkled. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Musician's Tale, xl. 
mass-book (mas'buk), w. [< ME. messebok, < 
AS. ma'sse-boc, < mcesfte, mass, + boc, book.] 
The missal, or Koman Catholic service-book. 
To force upon their Fellow -Subjects that which them- 
selves are weary of, the Skeleton of a Masse-Booke. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., if. 
mass-center (mas'sen'ter), n. That position 
from which as an origin the mean value of all 
the rectangular or oblique coordinates of the 
particles of a body is zero. In other words, passing 
any plane through this point, the sum of the masses of all 
the particles on the one side of this plane each multiplied 
by its distance from the plane is the same as the corre- 
sponding sum for all the particles on the other side. The 
mass center Is usually, but loosely, called the center of 
gravity. 
mass-day (mas ' da), . [< ME. mcsse-daij, 
ma'sse-da'i, < AS. mcesse-da'g, mass-day, < mavse, 
mass, + dieg, day.] A day on which high mass 
is celebrated. 
masse 1 (ma-sa'), r. t.; pret. and pp. masseed, 
ppr. ntass&ng. [< F. masxe, pp. of masser, knead : 
see massage' 2 ."} To perform the operation of 
massage upon ; massage. 
In fnaftgrtm/ the face of a fat patient, the tissues can 
only be rolled and stretched under the fingers and palm. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, IV. 600. 
mass' 2 (ma-sa'), n. [Cf. masse 1 .] In billiards, a 
sharp stroke made with the cue nearly or quite 
perpendicular, causing the cue-ball to return in 
a straight line or to move in a circular direc- 
tion, the direction depending mainly upon the 
part of the ball to which the cue is applied. 
massena (ma-se'nii), . [Named after Andr6 
MIIXXI'-IIII (1758-1817), a marshal of France.] 
In oniitli. : (a) A partridge, Cyrtonyx massena. 
See cut under Uyrtotiyx. (b) A trogon, TrugoH 
inassfiiit. 
masser 1 (mas'er), H. A priest who celebrates 
mass. [Rare.] 
A good master and so forth ; hut no true gospel preacher. 
Bale, Vet a Course at the Romynhe Foxe (1543), fol. 38. 
masser- (tnas'or), . [Perhaps a dial, corrup- 
tion of mercer; but cf . AS. massere (rare), a mer- 
chant.] A mercer. Halliu-ell. [Prov. Eng.] 
massive 
mass6-shot (ma-sa'shot), . Same s 
masseter (roa-se'tcr), H. [XI/.. < (ir. /tamrr>//> 
(not */iaaotjTqp), a chew (,'tff itaai/ri,ii, a muscle of 
the lower jaw), < fiaoaoflai, chew, prob. akin to 
/jaooeii; knead: see * 2 .] In mint., one of 
the principal muscles of mastication, the action 
of which directly and forcibly closes the mouth. 
In man the masseter Ii a stout thick squarish muscle 
which arises from the malar Ume and adjoining parts of 
the zygomatic arch, and Is Inserted Into the outer surface 
of the ramus of the lower jaw-bone. See cut under mtuefr. 
Internal masseter, an occasional name of the Inter- 
nal pterygold muscle, or entopterygoideiu. 
masseteric ( mas-e-ter'ik), . [< mnxseter + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining 'to the masseter: as, a //' 
ti i-i/- vessel or nerve : the iinumeteric fascia. 
masseterine (ma-se'ter-in), a. [< masseter + 
-iiic-.'} Same as manxcteric. 
masseur (ma-ser'), . [F., < masser, knead : sen 
massage^.] A man who practises massage. 
masseuse (ma-sez'),H. rF.,feui.of>**fr: see 
masseur.] A woman who practises massage. 
mass-gospellert, " A Romanist. 
Who would desire a two years' merry life for an eternal 
sorrow '.' as these mass-goipeller* do, which yet are uncer- 
tain of two years' life. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1858X II. 106. 
mass-house (m&s'hous), n. A Roman Catholic 
house of worship: an opprobrious term. 
From this time [about \"m}mass-hov*e*, though without 
any regular legal sanction, appear to have been freely per- 
mitted, and religious worship was celebrated without fear. 
Leclry, Eng. in 1Mb Cent., p. 304. 
massicot (mas'i-kot), H. [Incorrectly tiiasticot : 
< F. Massicot.'] Protoxid of lead, or yellow oxid 
of lead, PbO. Melted lead exposed to the air be 
comescovered with a yellowish-gray dusky pellicle. This 
pellicle is carefully taken otf, and is oxidized by exposure 
to air and a moderate heat to a greenish-gray powder. In- 
clining to yellow. This oxid, separated from the grains 
of lead by sifting, and exposed to a heat sufficient to make 
it red-hot, but not to melt It, assumes a deep-yellow color. 
In this state it is called masnciit, but does not differ chemi- 
cally from litharge, though different in color and mechani- 
cal condition. After melting it has a reddish tint, and is 
called lit/large. Massicot, slowly heated by a moderate flre. 
Is further oxidized to minium or red lead. It Is some- 
times used as a pigment, and as a drier in the composition 
of ointments and plasters. Also called lead oclier. 
massif (ma-sef), n. [F. : see ( re.] A cen- 
tral mountain-mass; the dominant part of a 
range of mountains ; a part of a range which ap- 
pears, from the position of the depressions by 
which it is more or less isolated, to form an in- 
dependent whole; also, an orographic block or 
fault-block (German seholle) ; a band or zone of 
rocks raised or depressed between two largely 
developed parallel faults. The French wordiMMi/ 
is occasionally used with these various significations in 
default of any good and familiar English term, especially 
by geologists writing on the Alps. 
Massilia (ma-sil'i-ii), n. Same as Massalia. 
Massilian (ma-siri-an), a. [< L. MassiHanuK, 
< Massilia, Gr. M<unra//a, Marseilles. Cf. Mar- 
xeillais."] Of or belonging to Marseilles. Ap- 
plied specifically to the members of a Christian school, 
most numerous at Marseilles, later and more usually 
called Semi- Pelagians. 
massilyt (mas'i-li), flrfr. Massively. 
massiness (mas'i-nes), n. The state of being 
massy ; greatness of bulk ; ponderousness from 
size or density. 
massing-chalice (mfts'ing-chal'is), M. A chal- 
ice used in the service of the mass, as distin- 
guished from any other cup. 
massive (mas'iv), a. [= D. m*frf = G.Dan. 
Sw. ntassiv, < F. massif, bulky, massive, < masse, 
mass: see mass- and -ire .] 1. Forming or con- 
sisting of a large mass; solid; having great 
size and weight; heavy; weighty; ponderous: 
as, a massire weapon. 
The common military sword Is a heavy, massire weapon, 
for close engagement. Horney, Works, I. vll. 
The tallest of my folios. Opera Bonaventune, choice 
and mafxipe divinity, to which its two supporters ( . . . 
Bellartuine and Holy Thomas) showed but as dwarfs 
itself an Ascapart. l.innli, Ella, p. 34. 
2. Existing in mass or masses ; massed or ag- 
gregated; not separated into parts or elements: 
specifically applied in psychology to sensations 
or feelings. 
As this aggregate [of pleasurable recollections] grows by 
accumulation, it becomes vague in proportion as it be- 
comes manner. H. Spencer, Prill, of Psycho!., i 513. 
The entrance Into a warm bath gives onr skin a more 
nuurine feeling than the prick of a pin. 
If. James, Mind, XII. 1. 
The distinction In pleasures (and in pains) between the 
acute and voluminous or massive (Intensity and Quantity) 
Is pregnant with vital results. 
.1. llain. Emotions and Will, p. 12. 
3. Pertaining to the whole mass or bulk of any- 
tliiiig: total, as to mass; not special, local, or 
partial. 
