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A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

em chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass.

Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person. Evelyn. Holy office. Same as Inquisition, n., 3. -- Houses of office. Same as def. 7 abo…

lectric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm. Ohm's law (Elec.), the statement of the fact that the strength or intensity of an electrical cur…

A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oögonium.

ronum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. Dunglison.

honies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.

A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. [Written also ordinale.]

The mass; the common run. [Obs.] I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. Shak.

ring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.

trical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high. -- Os`cil*lo*graph"ic (#), a.

The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.

A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.

A mass of otoliths.

Sale at public auction. Massinger. Thackeray.

To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.

An excessive rate. [R.] Massinger.

A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.