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See Mastersinger.

usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. My master . . . did menace me with death. Shak.

ue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden.

To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

The customary abbreviation of Mister in writing and printing. See Master, 4.

a book in which military forces are registred. -- Muster file, a muster roll. -- Muster master (Mil.), one who takes an account of troops, and of their equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector. [Eng.] -- Muster roll (Mil.), a list or register of all the men in a company, troop, or regiment, present or accounted f…

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak.

The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange.

A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.

ower of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. Collier.

-- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.

-- with of, as, to be observant of rules. We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle. Sir K. Digby.

d odd things. Arbuthnot. Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by critical writings. Spectator.

would be offering at the shepherd's voice. L'Estrange. I will not offer at that I can not master. Bacon.

The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. Sir T. More.

One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master. Freeman.

owers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

my own composition; my own idea; at my own price. "No man was his own [i. e., no man was master of himself, or in possession of his senses]." Shak. To hold one's own, to keep or maintain one's possessions; to yield nothing; esp., to suffer no loss or disadvantage in a contest. Shak.

The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.