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hen treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.CaO

A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster.

One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidæ), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion. Shak. Man over men He made not lord. Milton.

to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove. Prior.

animal whose fur was formerly much in req [Written also lusern and luzern.] The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase. Beau. & Fl.

the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.

A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

o produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc. An appearance made by some magic. Chaucer. Celestial magic, a supposed…

Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. When magisterial duties from his home Her father called. Glover. We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions o…

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

t important thing. [Obs., except in special uses.] Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters. Bacon.

Master. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.