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Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

A ship's masthead. Shak.

An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.

A Dutch vessel with two masts.

Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.

The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.

The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.

That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

unwieldly. Shak. Shear hulk, an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship. -- The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] Dickens.

The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

The master of a family. [Obs.] Chaucer.

udden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelid…

To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory. [R.] Bacon.

ood man. Bassanio. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary Shak. If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humor his men with the imputation of being near their master. Shak.

One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university. Walton.

inches, or small degrees. [R.] He gets too far into the soldier's grace And inches out my master. Dryden.

for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part. C. Leslie.

instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in. A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon.