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The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. Gray.

infinitive; as, this goes to show. Against right reason all your counsels go. Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. Sir W. Scott.

odwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hæmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

A husband; a master of a family. [Obs.]

given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself. Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air. Milton.

A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer. Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber Mark xiv. 14.

curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. -- Goose quill, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. -- Goose skin. See Goose flesh, above. -- Goose tongue (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands. --…

he chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bol…

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

the number of a hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. Mass. Records (1647).

and view; a grand conception. They are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style. M. Arnold.

One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.

A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.

or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

se or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

A harbor master. [Obs.]

gee, or To haw and gee about, to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to master or control. [Colloq.]

hinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.