massive 
Opposing massive to localised or specialised stimulation. 
Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, Oct., 1886, p. 134. 
4. In )fHcra/.,without crystalline form, although 
perhaps crystalline in structure : as, a mineral 
that occurs massire. A mineral which is both 
massive and non-crystalline is said to be amor- 
phous. 5. Inf/eol., homogeneous; destitute of 
structural divisions, such as planes of stratifica- 
tion or jointing. By some geologists the term massive 
is used as synonymous with eruptive or Plutonic igneom. 
but such rocks often have one or more well-marked sys- 
tems of joints, and are by no means homogeneous. 
6. In zool., massed: applied to the type of 
structure represented by the mollusks. Von 
Jiaer. [Rare.] Massive eruption, in neol., the pour- 
ing forth of lava from a line or system of fissures, so that 
vast areas have become covered by nearly horizontal sheets 
of eruptive material. =Syn. 1. Massy, Ponderous, etc. See 
bulky. 
massively (mas'iv-li), adi\ In a mass ; pon- 
derously. 
massiveness (mas'iv-nes), >. The state or qual- 
ity of being massive, in any sense ; specifically, 
great weight with bulk : massiness ; ponderous- 
ness. 
mass-meeting (mas 'me "ting), . A public 
meeting of persons in mass, or of all classes, 
to consider or listen to the discussion of some 
matter of common interest. 
massmongert (mas'mung"ger), . One who cel- 
ebrates mass; a Romanist; one who believes 
in the sacrifice of the mass: an opprobrious 
term. 
Our Papists have another will, which the maamonffers 
will more willingly follow than God's will. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 315. 
massondewf, . Same as measondue. 
Massonia (ma-so'ni-a), n. [NL. (Thunberg, 
1781), named after F. Masson, a botanical writer 
and explorer of the 18th century.] A genus of 
liliaceous plants of the tribe Allieas, the onion 
family, and type of the subtribe Massoniece. 
They have a regular cylindrical perianth-tube, with five 
equal, spreading, or reflexed lobes, and six stamens, which 
are longer than the perianth, and are united by their fila- 
ments into a ring at the base. They are bulbous herbs, 
with two ovate radical leaves which lie flat on the ground, 
and an umbel-like head of numerous usually white flow- 
ers. The scape is very short, the head being almost ses- 
sile between the leaves, and surrounded by a many-leafed 
membranous involucre. About 20 species are known, all 
from the south of Africa ; several of them are cultivated 
for their singular appearance. 
Massonieae (mas-o-m'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Ben- 
tham and Hooker, 1883), < Massonia + -ece.~\ A 
subtribe of liliaceous plants of the tribe Alliece. 
It is characterized by a coated bulb, a very short scape, 
subsessile between the leaves, and a dense umbel of flow- 
ers, surrounded by an involucre of from three to an indefi- 
nite number of bracts. The subtribe includes 2 genera, 
Massonia, the type, and Daubenya. 
Massora, Massoretic, etc. See Masora, etc. 
mass-penny (mas'pen"i), n. [< ME. massepeny; 
< mass 1 + penny.] A fee for a mass. 
Gif us ... 
A Goddes halfpeny, or a masse-peny. 
Chaucer, Snmmoner's Tale, 1. 41. 
As soon as the Credo was done, the offering, if the day 
happened to be one of those upon which it had to be given, 
was made by all the people, each of whom walked up to 
the foot of the altar to leave their gift, or, as it used to be 
called, the mass-penny, in the basin held by a clerk, or 
upon the celebrant's own hand, covered with the broad 
end of his stole. Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 192. 
mass-priest (mas'prest), n. [< ME. masse-priest 
(?), < AS. ma&aeprefat, < mcesse, mass, + preost, 
priest.] Formerly, a secular priest of the Ro- 
man Catholic Church, as distinguished from the 
regulars; afterward, a priest retained in the 
chantries, or at particular altars, to say masses 
for the dead: still sometimes used derogatorily 
for any Roman Catholic priest. 
mass-seert (mas'ser), n. One who sees or is 
present at a mass. 
' ' No man can serve two masters ; " ''he that gathereth 
not with Christ," as no moss-seer unreproving it doth, 
"scattereth abroad." 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 53. 
massuellet, n. See masuel. 
massula (mas'u-la), n.; pi. masstiUe (-le). [NL., 
< L. massula, di'mi'of massa, a lump or mass : see 
mass 2 .'] In lot.: (a) In the Fittciiiete, a mass of 
hardened frothy mucilage inclosing a group of 
microspores. (6) In phanerogams, a group of 
cohering pollen-grains that have been produced 
by one primary mother-cell. Goebel. 
mass-Vector (mas'vek"tor), n. See the quota- 
tion. 
Let us define a mass-vector as the operation of carrying 
a given mass from the origin to the given point. The di- 
rection of the mass-vector is the same as that of the vector 
of the mass, but its magnitude is the product of the mass 
into the vector of the mass. 
Maxicell, Matter and Motion, LIX. 
3650 
mass-velocity (mas've-los"i-ti), >i. The mass 
of matter through which the disturbance to 
which it belongs is propagated per unit of time 
per unit of cross-section. 
massy (mas'i), a. [< ME. massy; < mass 2 + -#*.] 
1. Compacted into or consisting of amass; pos- 
sessing great mass or bulk ; massive. 
He was massy & mekull, made for the nonest. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3885. 
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths. 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 3. 67. 
2. Being in mass ; consisting of masses ; made 
up of large or heavy parts. 
Bound betweene two Tables of tnassie Gold. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 267. 
A second multitude 
With wondrous art founded the massy ore. 
Milton, P. L., i. 703. 
It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy 
expense as for states to use a minute economy. 
Emerson, Farming. 
=Syn. Massive, Ponderous, etc. See bulky. 
mast 1 (mast), tt. [< ME. mast, < AS. moist = D. 
mast = MLG. LG. mast = OHG. MHG. G. mast= 
Icel. mastr = Sw. Dan. mast (not recorded in 
Goth.); hence OF. mast,F.mdt= Pr. mat, mast= 
Pg. masto, mastro, mast ; perhaps radically con- 
nected with ii. mains, a mast, pole.] 1. Apoleor 
pillar of round timber, or of tubular iron or steel, 
secured at the lower end to the keel of a vessel, 
and rising into the air above the deck to sup- 
port the yards, sails, and rigging in general. 
A mast is composed either of a single piece, or of several 
pieces united by iron bands. When it is of several pieces, 
it is called a built mast or a made mast. In all large ves- 
sels the masts are composed of several lengths, called 
lower mast, topmast, and topgallantmast. The royalmast 
is now made in one piece with the topgallantmast. A 
mast consisting of a single length is called a pole-mast. 
In a full-rigged ship with three masts, each of three pieces, 
the masts are distinguished as the foremast, the main- 
mast, and the mizzenmast ; and the pieces as the foremast 
(proper), foretopmast, foretopgallantmast, etc. In vessels 
with two masts, they are called the foremast and main- 
mast; in vessels with four masts, the aftermast is called 
the spanker-mast or jigger-mast. 
Anone the mastyr commaundeth fast 
To hys shyp-men in alle the hast, 
To dresse hem sone about the mast, 
Theyr takelyng to make. 
Pilgrims' Sea-Voyage (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11. 
The tallest pine, 
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast 
Of some great ammiral. Milton, P. L., i. 293. 
2. Any tall pole. 
We passe by several! tall masts set up to guide travellers, 
so as for many miles they stand in ken of one another 
like to our beacons. Evelyn, Diary, March 23, 1646. 
Electric-light masts, and telegraph poles with their close 
network of wires crossing and recrossing and literally 
obscuring the sun. Fortnightly Rev,, N. S., XXXIX. 222. 
3. The main upright member of a derrick or 
crane, against which the boom abuts. Car- 
Builder's Diet At the mast, on the spar-deck at the 
mainmast, the official place of interview between men of 
the United States navy and their officers when a request 
is to be made or an offense investigated. Before or 
afore the mast. See before. Captain of the mastt 
See mastman. Dolphin Of the mast. See dolphin. 
Hand-mast, a mast-makers' name for a round spar, at 
least 24 and not exceeding 72 inches in circumference. 
Such spars are measured by the hand of four inches, 
there being a fixed proportion between the number of 
hands in the length of the mast and that contained in the 
circumference, taken at one third of the length from the 
bntt-end. Laslett. [Eng.] Military mast, a mast carried 
by a war-ship for fighting purposes only, and not for setting 
sail. Naval ships of the most recent design are often pro- 
vided with one military mastor more, carrying armored tops 
or platforms on which are mounted machine-guns. Such 
masts are also used for signaling and to provide stations 
for lookouts, and, in time of action, for small-arm men. 
Where more than one top is placed on a military mast, the 
lower one carries the machine-guns, and the upper the 
lookouts and small- 
arm men. Such 
masts are also fitted 
with derricks for 
hoisting torpedo- 
boats, etc., out and 
in. Sliding-gun- 
ter mast, a small 
mast fitted for slid- 
ing upward on an- 
other mast by 
means of hoops or 
rings. It is used 
principally for 
boats, but formerly 
served as a skysail- 
tnast rigged above 
a royalmast. - 
Spencer-mast, " 
spar attached abaft 
the foremast or 
mainmast to re- 
ceive the rings or 
Mast with Spencer-mast attached. 
hoops of a spencer. To spend or expend a mast. See 
xpend. Trysail-mast, or spanker-mast, a small mast 
(similar to a spencer-mast) abaft a lower mast fur carry- 
ing the hoops to which a trysail or spanker is bent. 
master 
mast 1 (mast), c. /. [< mast 1 , .] To fix a mast 
or masts in ; supply with a mast or masts ; erect 
the masts of : as, to mast a ship. 
mast 2 (mast), n. [< ME. mast, < AS. ma>nt, food, 
mast (acorns, beechnuts, etc.), = OHG. MHG. 
G. mast, mast; prob. orig. *matsti-, connected 
with Goth, mats = OHG. man = E. meat, etc., 
food: see meat 1 .'] The fruit of the oak and 
beech or other forest-trees; acorns or nuts col- 
lectively, serving as food for animals. 
As if God had ordained kings for no other end and pur- 
pose but only to fat up men like hogs, and to see that they 
have their mast. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. 3. 
They [acorns] only serve as mast for the hogs and other 
wild creatures, . . . together with several other sorts of 
mast growing upon the beech, pine, and other trees. 
Beverley, Virginia, ii. 1| 14. 
mast 2 (mast), v. t. [< mast?, .] To feed on 
mast. 
Masting themselves like hogs. 
Beeon, Works, II. 425. (Davies.) 
Mastacembelid.se (mas"ta-sem-beri-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < Mastacembelus -r- -ida>..~\ A family of 
opisthomous fishes exemplified by the genus 
Mastacembelus, without ventrals or prominent 
anal papilla, with the body eel-like, and with 
numerous free dorsal spines. The species in- 
habit fresh waters of southern Asia and of Af- 
rica, and are known as spiny-eels. 
mastacembeloid (mas-ta-sem'be-loid), a. and n. 
I. a. Of, pertaining to, or having the characters 
of the Mastacembelidai. 
II. n. A fish of the family Mastacembelidce. 
Mastacembelus (mas-ta-sem'be-lus), . [NL. 
(Gronovius), < Gr. //doraf, the mouth, + ev, in, + 
j3 /(of, a dart : see belemn ite.J A genus of tropical 
Asiatic fishes, type of the family Mastacembeli- 
<fe, whose upper jaw ends in a pointed mov- 
able appendage. M. armatus is a common 
spiny-eel of India. 
mastadenitis (mas-tad-e-nl'tis), n. [NL., < Gr. 
/uurrdf, the breast, + adrfv, a gland, + -itis.~] In 
patliol., inflammation of the mammary gland; 
mastitis. 
mastalgia (mas-tal'ji-a), n. [NL., < Gr. /jaarAf, 
the breast, + a'Ayof, pain.] Inpathol., neural- 
gia of the breast; mastodynia. 
niastax (mas'taks), n. [NL., < Gr. /laaraZ, the 
mouth, < [laaaaSai, chew. Cf. mustache.] 1. 
The muscular pharynx of the wheel-animal- 
cules ; the pharyngeal bulb of rotifers, contain- 
ing the masticatory apparatus. Also called buc- 
cal funnel. 2. [cap.] A genus of caraboid 
beetles, confined to eastern Asia. Fischer, 1825. 
3. [cap.] A genus of orthopterous insects. 
Perty, 1830. 
mast-bass (mast'bas), . The black-bass. [Lo- 
cal, U. S.] 
mast-car line, mast-carling (mast'kar'lin, 
-ling), n. In a ship, a large carline placed at 
the side of the masts, between the beams, to 
support the partners. 
mast-coat (mast'kot), . In a ship, a conical 
canvas fitted over the wedges around the mast, 
at the level of the deck, to prevent the oozing 
of water down below. 
masted (mas'ted), p. a. Furnished with a mast 
or masts ; having or exhibiting masts : chiefly 
used in composition : as, a three-wasted vessel. 
Nowhere far distant from the masted wharf. 
Dyer, Fleece, iii. 
Slow enlarging on the view, 
Four manned and masted barges grew. 
Scott, L. of the L., ii. 16. 
master 1 (mas'ter), n. and a. [Also wester (dial.) 
and mister, the latter now differentiated in use 
(see mister 1 ); < ME. maister, mayster, meister. 
maistre, < OF. maistre, F. maitre = Pr. majstre, 
maestre, mestre, mayestre = Sp. maestre, maestro, 
OSp. mestro, mestre = Pg. mestre = It. maestro, 
mastro = AS. nuegister, magister, mayster, mais- 
ter = OS. mester = OFries. mdstere, mester = D. 
mecster = MLG. mester, meister, LG. meester = 
OHG. meistar, MHG. G. meister = Icel. tiifixfari 
= Sw. mastare = Dan. mester, master, < L. ma- 
i/ister, a chief, head, director, president, leader, 
teacher, in ML. Rom. and Teut. applied to vari- 
ous superior officers, in titles, etc., and hence a 
conventional prefix; in OL. magcste r; with for- 
mative -is-ter, -es-ter (as in the opposite minix- 
tcr, a servant), < miia-, in iiiaf/mm, great: see 
main%, mti</niti </<. inn/or, etc.] I. . 1. A man 
who has authority; a man who exercises the 
chief control over something or some one; a 
paramount ruler, governor, or director. 
The firste lordes and matjstres that in Engelond were, 
These chef townes heo lette in Engelonde rere. 
Rob. of Gltmcrxter. p. '2. 
