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

Mistress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mistress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A woman who ministers. Akenside.

In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. Chaucer.

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

Misstep; misbehavior. "To punish my mistreadings." Shak.

To treat amiss; to abuse.

Wrong treatment.

f a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! Shak.

Female rule or dominion.

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city." Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. B. Jonson. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ness, n.

See Orchestra.

A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell; shelly. The crustaceous or ostreaceous body. Cudworth.

The artificial cultivation of oysters.

One who feeds on oysters.

To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.

A street remote from the center of a town. Johnson.

To stretch out. Milton.