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Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust. That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy. Hallam.

A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. "A wise and masterly inactivity." Sir J. Mackintosh.

and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house (Naut.), a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging the water, used for stepping and unstepping the masts of vessels.

Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

A suitable companion; a match; an equal. Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened. [Written also matress.]

Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. It was meet that we should make merry. Luke xv. 32. To be meet with, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]

Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

g upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.

Like, or suitable to, a monk. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

ertain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.

Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.