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The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat. Chapman. Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast. South.

In Mohammedan countries, a fixed seat, common in dwellings and in public places.

The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food.

Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders, which are used without vibrators of their own.

Dominion; rule; command. [R.] Shak.

Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary. Dryden.

In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.

The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté.

Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n.

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. "A wise and masterly inactivity." Sir J. Mackintosh.

Masterly. [Obs.] Milton.

rdinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement. The top and masterpiece of art. South. Dissimulation was his masterpiece. Claredon.

The state or office of a master.

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).

The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. Sir W. Raleigh.

Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut. Dryden.