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A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle.

Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.

easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and f…

A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.

as before the blowpipe. In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a yellowish black mass. Kirwan.

a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass. Sir W. Thomson.

A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.

Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.

A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes. Massinger.

ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. "Judicial massacres." Macaulay. Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated. Milton.

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up. Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together Burton. Every clime and age Jumbled together. Tennyson.

soms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. -- Jupiter's staff (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms.…

A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher. [Obs.] Shak.

cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

ore (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorde…

ernment." Swift. "The kingly couch." Shak. The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn. G. Massey. Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares. Cowper.

he portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.