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. Ps. cxlv. 199. Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. Milton. Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. Shak.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.

drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. -- Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen. -- Gang plank. See Gang board (above). -- Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above). -- Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening pl…

infinitive; as, this goes to show. Against right reason all your counsels go. Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. Sir W. Scott.

A husband; a master of a family. [Obs.]

A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer. Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber Mark xiv. 14.

he chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bol…

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

the number of a hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. Mass. Records (1647).

and view; a grand conception. They are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style. M. Arnold.

or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

se or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

A harbor master. [Obs.]

gee, or To haw and gee about, to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to master or control. [Colloq.]

Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.

The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.