Massalianl (masalian)

Same as Euchite. Ma ali an2 (ma-sā'li-an), n. Same as Hesy chast. ma -area (mas'ā rē-ä), n. See the quotation. When a material particle moves from one point to another, twice the area swept out by the vector of the particle multiplied by the ma of the particle is called the ma are a of the displacement of the particle with respect to the origin from which the vector is drawn. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 1. ma a (mas'ä), n. A corruption of master1 . [Negro dialect, U. S.] Ma achusettensian (mas-a-cho-se-ten'si-an), ö-se-ten'si-an), Ma a ride, Ma aris, etc. See Masarida , etc. n. [ Ma achusettensis , Ma achusetts , a name of Amer. Ind. origin.] A native or an inhabitant of the State of Ma achusetts. [Rare.] In this society of Ma achusettensians , then, there is.. a moral and political equality of rights and duties among all the individuals. J. Adams , Works, IV. 392. Maxwell, Matter and Motion, LXVIII. ma asauga (mas-a-sa'gä), n. [Amer. Ind.] One of the small but very venomous rattle- snakes which inhabit prairies in the western United States and Territories, such as Crotalo- phorus tergeminus ( Sistrurus catenatus ). The top of the head is covered with regular plates, as in innocuous serpents, not with scales as in most rattlesnakes; the pit between the eye and the nose is present, as in all Crota- lidæ . These snakes are of dark blotched coloration, and sideliners , from their habit of wriggling sidewise. The a foot or two long. They are also called side wipers and black ma asauga is a very dark-colored species or variety, ma acre (mas'a-ker), n. [F. ma acre (ML. mazacrium ), ma acre, killing, also the head of a stag newly killed; appar. of Teut. origin, and prob. matzgen , cut, hew, = D. matsen, maul, kill, = G. metzen , cut, kill, > metze- lei , ma acre: see mason .] 1. The in disc rim i- nate killing of human beings; the unnece ary (which see, under bell1 ). slaughter of a number of persons, as in barb a- rous warfare or persecution, or for revenge or plunder: as, the ma acre of Glencoe: some- times applied also to the wholesale killing of wild animals. Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on, And rebels' arms triumph in ma acres. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. 14. 2. In her., a pair of antlers or attires attached to a piece of the skull, used as a bearing. - Ma acre of the innocents. See innocent, n. =Syn. Ma acre, Butchery, Carnage. Ma acre denotes the indiscriminate and general slaughter of many; butchery a ruthle , un sparing, and cruel slaughter, as though it were done at the shambles; carnage a great slaughter, suggesting the piled up dead of the battle-field. See kill1. ma acre (mas'a-kėr), v. t.; pret. and pp. ma a cred, ppr. ma acring. [ The cohort was ma acred by the fraude of the A grip pin ens is. Sir H. Savile, tr. of Tacitus, p. 180. Do the locks bristle and the eyebrows arch For grouse or partridge ma acred in March? Scott , The Poacher. =Syn. Murder, Slaughter , etc. See killl . ma acrer (mas'a-krėr), n . One who ma acres. [Rare.] We have put wax into our ears to shut them up against the tender soothing strains of regicides, a a ins, ma a crers, and septembrisers. Burke , A Regicide Peace, i. ma acroust (mas'a-krus), a . [ ma acre + -ous.] Cruelly murderous. Theyr mindes benummed with the ma acrous monstrousne of thys quick marshall-law. Nash , Christ's Teares over Jerusalem. ma a gelt, n. An obsolete form of me age . ma age2 (ma-säzh'), n. [F. ma age , mas ser , Gr. μάσσειν , knead: see ma 2.] In therap ., the act or art of applying intermittent pre ure and strain to the muscles and other acce ible ti ues of the patient. The means employed are rubbing, kneading, and light pounding, combined ordinarily with more or le additional stimulation of the skin, as by friction and slapping. This manipulation furthers the removal of lymph from the parts, which is especially needful when the lymphatic flow is sluggish through lack C. kirtlandi .