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Show J MA MA A smafon that makes a wall, meets with a fton that wants no cutting, and places it in his work More Ma'soNRY. 7. fo [magonerie, Fr. craft or performance of a mafon 6. [Mija, Latin. In courtly balls and midnight ma/guerades Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring fpark The glance by day, the whifper in the dark? Pope 2. Difguife 1 was upon the frolick this evening, and cam to vifit thee in mafquerade. Dryden's Spanifb Fryar Truth, of all things the plaineft and fincereft is forced to gain admittance in difguife, and cour Felton us in mafquerade 7o MasQUERA'DE. v. . [from the noun. 1. To go in difguife A freak took an afs in the head, and he goe into the woods, mafquerading up and down in L' Eftrange To ailemble in mafks by th Swift 1 find that our art hath not gained muc happy revival of mafguerading among us MasQuUERA'DER. 7. /. [from ma/querade. A perfon in a maik The moft dangerous fort of cheats are but ma/L'Effrange queraders under the vizor of friends Mass. n. / 1. Abody [maffe, French; mafa, Lat. alump; a continuous quan tity ]f)" it were not fo of the earth, planets in them, would gro inaltive mafis Some paffing int to cover an it in the mafs they togethe Thy fumptuous buildings, and thy wife's attire Have coft a mafs of publick treafury. - Shakefpeare He difcovered to me the richeft mines which th gol tha come an fro all th whenc Rflg,-‘gb into Spain i? drawn mafs o He had fpenta hugemafs of treafure in tranfportDawies on Ireland ing his army vaft body 3. Bulk The Creator of the world would not have frame fo huge a mafs of earth but for fome reafonabl Abbot creatures to have their habitation This army of fuch mafs and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince. Shakefp. Haml 2 Congeries; aflemblage indiftinét The whole knowledge of groupes, of the light and fhadows, and of thofe ma/Jes which Titian call a bunch of grapes, is, in the prints of Rubens Dryden expofed clearly to the fight At diftance, through an artful glafs To the mind's eye things well appear They lofe their forms, and make a maf feemns covered with them, and we muft walk into i we can diftinguit th fevera weed tha fpring up in fuch a beautiful mafs of colours. Addif 5. Grofs body Comet hav the general power ove th the bulk grofs and mafs o things; but they are rather gazed upon than wifel Bacon obferved in their effeéts Where'er thou art, he is; th' eternal min A&s through all places; is to none confin'd Fills ocean, earth, and air, and all above And through the univerfal 7afs does move. Dryden The mafs of the people have opene their eyes and will not be governed by Clodius and Curio Savift If there is not fufficient quantity of blood an ftrength of circulation, it may infet the whole 7af of the fluids Vor IF 7o Mass. w. #. [fro the noun. celebrate mafs T veltments 70 Mass w a the noun. I feems once to have fignified to thicken Arbuthnot 2 Slaughter grows murder, when it goes too far And makes a maffacre what waz a war Dryden 2. Murder The tyrannous and bloody aét is don The moft arch deed of piteous maffacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Shakefpeare I'll find a day to maffacre them all raze their faction and their family may, like duft, be irrecoverably diffipated, if Go do not countermine us, or we recover fo much fo MA ssINESS n. /. [from mafly, ma/Ma'ssiveness. § fiwe.] Weight; bulk ponderoufnefs MA'SSIVE. } adj. [mafif, Fr.] Heavy MA'SSY weighty ; ponderous bulky; continuous If you would hurt Your fwords are now too maffy far your ftrength And will not be uplifted Shakelpeare's Tempeft Perhaps thefe few ftones and fling, ufed wit No fideboards then with gilded plate were prefs'd No fweating flaves with #a/ffive difhes drefs'd Dryden more grofs and maffive parts of the ter that no ligh coul owe their orde Woodavard fo thick an get throug them quegion not but that they would, like all othe an [fro maf. Furnifhe And neither man nor maffer would take augh But the two rings. Shakefpeare's Merchs of Venice 2. A direftor a governor If thou be made the maffer ofa feaft, be amon them as one of the reft Ecclufe xxxile 1 O thou, my friend, my genius, come along maffer of the post, and the fong Owner; proprietor; wit governing Pope the idea o An orator, who had undertaken to make a panegyrick on Alexander the Great, and who had employed the ftrongeft figures of his rhetorick in th praife of Bucephalus, would do quite the contrar to that which was expeéted from him; becaufe i would be believed, that he rather took the horfe fo Wifdo countervai wood The boy, his clerk, begg'd mine 4. A lord Gowvernment of the Tongue maff a little ca his fubje¢t than the maffer the maffive armour of the uncircumcifed Philiftine wer int Of this fair manfion, maffer of my fervants Queen o'er myfelf; and even now, but now This houfe, thefe fervants, and this fame myfel Are yours, my lord Shakep. Merchant of Venice Take up thy mafler Shake/peare's King Lear My lord Baffanio gave his ring awa Unto the judge that begg'd it 3 Hakeawill are more laftin But now I was the lor Tho It was more notorious for the daintinefs of th provifion ferved in it, than for the maffinefs of th I or fervant [French. or glaffe beach 1. One who has fervants : oppofed to ma Atterbury mafficor has received more, and goid coloured maffico ftiil more Trevoux to the deluge If thefe Jiquor an French; magiffer, Latin. After the miferable flaughter of the jews, a the deftruction of Jerufalem, they were fcattere into all corners, opprefled and detefted, and fome the ftrata of ftone oa MA'STER. n. /. [meefier, Dutch ; maiftre Decay of Piety Mafficot is cerufs calcined by a moderate degre of fire; of this there are three forts, arifing fro the different degrees of fire applied in the operation White mafficot is of a yellowith white, and is tha which has received the leaft calcination; yello his floc Ma'sTED. adj with mafts briety as to forbear to majfaere what we pretend t reftrial globe fruit of th up he went to fhake them down fome maft L'Eftrange's Fables The breaking down an old frame of government, and ere€ting a new, feems like the cuttin down an old oak' and planting a young one: it i true, the grandfon may enjoy the fhade and th maft, but the planter, befides the pleafure of imagination, has no other benefit. Temple's Mifcellanies Wond'ring dolphins o'er the palace glide On leaves and maft of mighty oaks they brouze And their broad fins entangle in the boughs Dryden Milton ma Dryden's Horer than thofe that bear fruits; as oaks and beeche laft longer than apples and pears. Bacon's Nat. Hif When fheep fed like men upon acorns, a fhep Make they, but of their brethren, men of men Th Th herd drov invocation of the Lord of Hofts the fail is fixed Trees that bear maff, and nuts Of whom fuch maffacr n. / th The oaks bear maft, the briars fcarlet hips The bounteous houfewife, nature, on each buf Lays her full mefs before you. Skak. Tim. of Ath criminate deftru@ion times maflacred and extirpated abov has in this fenfe no plural termination MA'SSACRE. 2. /. [maflacre, French from mazzare, Italian. 1, Carnage; flaughter; butchery; indif MA'SSICOT to whic raife His veffel moor'd Hayward love or pof He dropp'd his anchors, and his oars he ply'd Furl'd every fail, and drawing down the maff They feared the French might, with filling o maffing the houfe, or elfe by fortifying, make fuc An bea Ten mafts attach'd make not the altitud That thou haft perpendicularly fallen. Shakefpeare to ftrengthen a piece as might annoy the haven » /. [maft, mét, French; mzye veflel Hooker [fro Pepe Saxon. Their maffing furniture they took from the law left having an altar and a ‘prieft, they fhould wan difh Prior Confus'd and black, if brought too neas Where flowers grow, the ground at a diftanc befor 1. Th Shakefpeare Chriftian religion, now crumbled into fractions 2. A large quantity Spaniards have Atterbury pardonably wicked in ufing ma/fes for fiftecn years fo as wholl Wosdward's Natural Hiftory conftituted MAST 7o MA'sSACRE. w. a. [maflacrer, Fr. fro the noun. To butcher; to flaughte indifcriminately involv Sees yawning rocks in maffy fragments fly And views aftonifh'd from the hills afar The floods defcending, and the wat'ry war Peacham on Drawing He infers, that then Luther muft have been un thefe principles, the bodie comets, fun, and all thing cold and freeze, and becom Neawton's Opticks their pores, others adherin in lumps or maffés to their outfides opaque bodies, appear of one and the fame colou in-all pofitions of the eye Neawtor's Ofticks Th' intrepid Theban hears the burfting fky we fee in old parchment and mafs books, doie b monks and priefts; who were very expert herein What guards the purity of melting maids 2 fervice of th Burnifhed gold is that manner of gilding whic MASQUERA'DE. 2. /. [from mafque. 1. ‘A diverfion in which the company i lion's fkin Th Romifh church Th mafked M.A a ruler Dryden's Dufr:;'ko)' and virtue are the proper qualification in the maffer ofa houfe Grardian There Cefar, grac'd with both Minervas, fhone Cafar, the world's great maffer, and his own. Pope Excuf The pride of royal blood, that checks my foul You know, alas I was not bern to kneel To fue for pity, and to own a maffer 5. Chief ; head Philips Chief mafier-gunner am I of this town Something I muft do to procure me grace. Shakef As a wife maffer-builder ¥ have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. 1 Cor. iii. 10 Th |