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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.

A witling. [R.] Milton.

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.

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

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.

Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

ave 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.

tion which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

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.

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

d 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.

Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.

magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.