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Incapable of being mastered or subdued. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.

The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] Spenser.

A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

f magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11.

hink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

ed pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.

In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel.

An obsolete form of admiral. "The mast of some great ammiral." Milton.