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Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.

mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. Like master, like man. Old Proverb. The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. Blackstone.

sy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow.

A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc. Barbary mastic (Bot.), the Pistachia Atlantica. -- Peruvian mastic tree (Bot.), a small tree (Schinus Molle) with peppery red berries; -- called also pepper tree. -- West Indian mastic (Bot.), a lofty tree (Bursera gum…

An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype. Mat grass. (Bot.) (a) A low, tufted, European grass (Nardus stricta). (b) Same as Matweed. -- Mat rush (Bot.), a kind of rush (Scirpus lacustris) used in England for making m…

A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold. Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted. -- Match game, a game a…

mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

See Mastersinger.

acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.

The eighteenth asteroid.

sually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. My master . . . did menace me with death. Shak.

e or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.

The mesogaster.

To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church. Minster house, the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation. Shipl…