mass or etIc, masoretic, mass ore tIcal

[Eng. masoret (h); -ic, -ical.] Of or pertain ing to the Ma orah; as, the ma ore tical rules or rubrics, the ma or etic vowel points or accents, the me or etic text- i. e., the text of the Hebrew Script ures compiled in accordance with the rules of the Ma orah. măs-soy, s. [Etym. doubtful; probably a native name.] (See the compound.) ma oy-bark, s. Bot., .: The bark of Laurus burmanni. It resembles cinnamon in flavor, and, when powdered, is much used by the Japanese. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0973.png:[blocks in formation] măs-sỹ, a . [Eng. ma (1); y.) Ma ive; con sisting of or forming a great ma ; ponderous bulky. (Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv.) mast (1), s . [A. S. mæst the stem of a tree, a bough, a mast; cogn. with Dut. mast ; Sw., Ger. & Dan. mast ; Icel. mastr; Fr. mât ; Port. mas to, mastro.] Naut.: A long spar of timber, iron, or steel, placed amidship, nearly perpendicularly upon the keelson, and serving to support the yards and gaffs to which the sails are bent. A mast consisting of one piece is a pole-mast. Masts are also known as single-tree masts or made masts. Masts for large ve els are composed of several pieces, about one ne foot square, with rounded segmental lengths on the outside, and the whole encircled at intervals by hoops. The middle tree is the spindle. The fishes are the side-trees. With two masts: The larger is the main-mast, the smaller is the foremast or the mizzen-mast, according to its position relatively to the main-mast. Brigs, brigantines. and schooners have fore and main masts. ketch and the yawl have main and mizzen masts. With three masts, they are called fore, main. mizzen; with four masts they are called fore, main. mizzen(main-mizzen), and jiggermast (bona venture mizzen). Iron masts are made hollow, the plates of the shell being single-riveted at the longitudinal joints and double-riveted at the circular joints Internal stiffening ribs and braces prevent flexure, collapse, or torsion. A trysail-mast is a small mast, stepped to and abaft of a lower-mast, to carry a trysail or spanker. (MILITARY MAST.] "He stoop'd his head against the mast , And bitter sobs came thick and fast." The Scott: Lord of the Isles, iv. 16 To spend or expend a mast : To have a m broken in foul weather. "Their sails are tatter'd, and their masts are spent." Dryden: Ovid; Heroïdes, vai