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To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] "This passes, Master Ford." Shak.

A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

A master key; a latchkey.

ne by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." Milton. Past master. See under Master.

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively.

The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property. Burrill.

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

ses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

eny. The distinction is abolished in England. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit…

ss white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.

h; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.

To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]

A master of polyphony; a contrapuntist.

e of bringing goods into port. -- Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.