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minion; command; supremacy; superiority. If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. Sir W. Raleigh.

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

A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.

Contest for mastery; contention; strife. [R.] Arnway.

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

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

to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc. An appearance made by some magic. Chaucer. Celestial magic, a suppose…

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

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

Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery. His masterful, pale face. Mrs. Browning.

Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden.

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. Sir T. More.

owers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

e, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [Certain] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.

to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Ex. xvii. 11. So David prevailed over the Philistine. 1 Sam. xvii. 50. This ki…

op to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

ee under Grafting. -- Whip hand, the hand with which the whip is used; hence, advantage; mastery; as, to have or get the whip hand of a person. Dryden. -- Whip ray (Zoöl.), the European eagle ray. See under Ray. -- Whip roll (Weaving), a roll or bar, behind the reeds in a loom, on which the warp threads rest. -- Wh…