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A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head. A curl that had strayed from her chignon. H. James.

A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

phide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

so absolute and circular In all those wished-for rarities that may take A virgin captive. Massinger. Circular are, any portion of the circumference of a circle. -- Circular cubics (Math.), curves of the third order which are imagined to pass through the two circular points at infinity. -- Circular functions. (Math.)…

n produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn.

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." Ezek. viii. 11.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

A member of a club. [R.] Massinger.

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.