masoolaboat, masu lah boat (masolabot)

A large East Indian boat used on the Coro mandel coast for conveying pa engers and goods between ships and the shore. It stands high out of the water, thus presenting a great surface to the wind, is difficult to manage, and slow; but it is well adapted for the purpose for which it is used, and sustains on the bars and shores shocks that would break up any European boat, the planks of which it is built being fastened together by cocoanut fibers. It is rowed sometimes with as many as sixteen oars. As the boat approaches the shore, the boatmen watch the opportunity of a coming wave to drive it high on the beach, where it is quickly run up out of the reach of the next rolling wave. Also called chelingue. Imp. Dict. Masora, Ma orah (mas'ō-ra), n. [Heb., tradition.] 1. The tradition by which Jewish scholars endeavored to fix the correct text of the Old Testament, so as to preserve it from all corruption.-2. After the ninth century, the book, or the marginal notes to the Hebrew text, in which the results of such tradition are preserved, embodying the labor of several centuries. There is a twofold Masora, a Babylonian or Eastern, and a Palestinian or Western, the former being the more important. The Masora not only takes account of various readings, but also contains notes of a grammatical and lexicographical character, including the sys tem of Hebrew vowel-points first established by it. With much that is valuele , it contains all the material from which a critical revision of the Old Testament text can now be derived. Also written Masorah and Ma or a. left us. A more accurate and lasting masoreth than either the synagogue of Ezra or the Galilæan school at Tiberias hath Milton , Divorce, To the Parliament. Same as Masorite . (mas-ō-ret'ik), Masorete, n. 3648 G. me e = Icel. me a =Sw.me a = Dan. me e = F. me e = Sp. mis a = Pg. mi a = It. me a, the ma , That Office which was called the Ma by the med iæval and the Latin Church, but which we now call the Lord's Supper and the Holy Communion. Procter, Hist. Book of Com. Prayer, p. 305. The Supper of the Lord, and the Holy Communion, commonly called the Ma . Book of Common Prayer (1549). ma ordinary of the ma , and without either consecration, elevation, or communion: said in some places in the middle ages for strangers who came too late for the celebration. The Typics of the Greek Church have been compared to such an office. What is commonly known as the Ante -communion Service has sometimes been called by Anglican writers the Dry Service ( Mi a sicca ). - High ma , a ma accompanied by music and incense, celebrated on Sun days, feast days, and other special occasions by a priest or prelate, attended by a deacon and subdeacon. Low ma , the ordinary ma , said, not sung, by the priest. - Ma bell. See bell1.- Ma for the dead, a ma celebrated for a person or persons after their death; in the Roman Catholic Church, one celebrated for the purpose of hastening the release of a soul or souls from purgatory. The color of the vestments, etc., is black. - Ma of the Holy Ghost, a solemn ma for the Pope, the sovereign, or the state, and for all in union with the church or with a religious order. It is celebrated previous to a council or to the election of a bishop or abbot, and also at consecrations and coronations, or to obtain from God some special light or favor. - Ma of the Presanctified. Same as Liturgy of the Presanctified. See liturgy. - Ordinary of the ma . See ordinary. - Private ma . ( a ) Low ma . (b) Any ma where only the priest communicates, especially such a ma celebrated in a private oratory. - Votive ma , a ma which does not correspond with the office of the day, but is said at the choice of the priest. Masora, or to the compilers of the Masora; pertaining to the method or system of the Masora: as, masoretic points-that is, the vowel-points furnished by the Masora. The text which the Revisers used was the so-called mas soretic or traditional text. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLIII. 559. masoretical, ma ore tical (mas-ō-ret'i-kal), a. [ masoretic + -al.] Same as masoretic . Masorite, Ma orite (mas'ō-rīt), n. [ Masora + -ite2.] ite2 .] One who made the Jewish traditional interpretation of the Bible his special study; specifically, one of that body of Jewish scholars which first put the Masora into written form. See Masora . Also Masorete , Masoret , Ma orete , Ma oret . The Masorites extended their care to the vowels. Mather , Vindication of the Bible, p. 257. (Latham.) masque, n. and v. See mask3 . masque longe, n . Same as maskalonge . masquer, n. See masker . masquerade (mas-ke-rād'), n. [= D. G. Dan. maskerade = Sw. maskerad , masquerade = It. mas cher at a, mascarada , a masque- rade, mascara , a mask: see mask3 .] 1. An a embly of persons wearing masks and usu- ally other disguises, or rich and fantastic dre : usually, a dancing-party or ball. See mask - ball . The world's masquerade ! the maskers, you, you, you. Goldsmith, Epil. to Mrs. Lennox's Comedy, Sisters. Warton says that certain theatrical amusements were called masquerades very anciently in France. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 342. 2. Disguise effected by wearing a mask or strange apparel; hence, concealment or apparent change of identity by any means; disguise in general. And, after all, what is a lie? '"Tis but The truth in masquerade . Byron, Don Juan, xi. 37. IMG:content-0298.png:[blocks in formation] A freak took an a in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. Sir R. L'Estrange, Fables. II. trans. To cover with a mask or disguise. His next shift therefore is. to masquerade vice, and to make it wear the habit and shape of that virtue it most resembles. Killing beck , Sermons, p. 229. ( Latham .) masquerader (mas-ke-rā'dėr), n. 1. A person dre ed and disguised for a masquerade. Hence -2. A person or thing disguised in any man ner. The dreadful masquerader , thus equipt, Out sallied on adventures. Young , Night Thoughts, v. 860. ma 1 (mas), n. [ ma e , me e , mæ e , the ma , a church festival, = OS. mi a = OFries. mi a = MD. mi e , D. mis = MLG. mi e = OHG. mi a , me a , MHG. me e, mi e, rist; the liturgy. The component parts of the ma or liturgy are the ordinary of the ma (ordo mi e ) and the canon of the ma (canon mi æ ), succeeded by the communion (sometimes counted part of the canon) and post communion. Anciently and technically the part preceding the offertory is the ma or liturgy of the catechumens ( mi a catechu me no rum ), the remainder the ma or litur gy of the faithful ( mi a fidelium ). In the Roman Catholic Church different cla es of ma es are high ma , low ma , private ma , votive ma , etc. See the phrases below. It nedith not to speke of the mee e ne the seruise that the i hadde that day, for it were but lo e of tyme. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 375. And whan our parish - ma e was done, Our kinge was bowne to dyne. Sir Cauline (Child's Ballads, III. 175). The time of the Communion shall be immediately after that the Priest himself hath received the Sacrament, without the varying of any other rite or ceremony in the Ma . Order of the Communion (1548). of The maiden buried, not as one unknown, Nor meanly, but with gorgeous obsequies, And ma , and rolling music, like a queen. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. 3. The sacrament of the eucharist or holy communion. The word ma in this and the preceding senses is popularly used of the eucharist as celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church, or of the teachings of that church with regard to the sacrament, as involving not only the doctrines of the real presence and the eucharistic sacrifice, held in some other churches also, but the doctrine transubstantiation as defined by the Council of Trent. The use of the word ma ( mi a ) in the Western Church is as old as the fourth century. The Greek Church has no term precisely corresponding to ma , the sacrament being generally called the eucharist or holy communion, and the office the liturgy. At the Reformation the first Prayer Book (1549) of the Church of England retained the name ma , which was omitted in the second book (1552) and fell into disuse, being popularly regarded as involving a Roman Catholic view of the sacrament. The use of the word has, however, been revived to some extent among Anglicans in the present century. Swedish and Danish Protestants use the corresponding word for their own communion office. 4. A musical setting of certain parts of the Roman Catholic liturgy, also of corresponding parts of the Anglican liturgy. It consists usually of the following sections, each of which is sometimes divided into separate movements: Kyrie, Gloria (including the Gratias agimus, Qui toll is, Quoniam, Cum Sancto Spiritu), Credo (including the Et In carn at us, Crucifix us, Et Resurrexit), Sanctus (including the Hosanna), Benedictus (including a repetition of the Hosanna), and the Agnus Dei (including the Dona nob is). To these an Offertorium (after the Credo and before the Sanctus) is sometimes added. The Requiem Ma differs largely from the regular ma , and includes settings of several of the stanzas of the hymn "Dies Iræ." The artistic form of musical ma es varies widely, from unaccompanied plain-song to the most elaborate polyphony with orchestral accompaniments. Medieval ma es were named usually from the melody which was taken as the subject for contrapuntal treatment, as Josquin's ma "L'homme armé"; modern ma es are named from the key of the first movement, as Bach's "Ma in B minor." 5. A church festival or feast-day: now only in composition: as, Candle mas, Childermas, Christmas, Lammas, Martin mas, Marymas, Mi chaelmas, Roodmas (compare kerme ). - By the ma t, an oath formerly in common use: sometimes abbreviated to ma . Mrs. Page. Trust me, he beat him most pitifully. Mrs Ford. Nay, by the ma , that he did not; he beat him most unpitifully, methought. ' Ma , here he comes. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 2. 214. Middle ton (and others ), The Widow, iii. 3. Capitular ma , in collegiate churches, high ma , celebrated on Sun days or festivals. - Consummation of the ma . See consummation. Conventual ma , a solemn ma celebrated daily in cathedral and collegiate churches, in memory of and for the benefit of their founders. Dry ma , dry service, a form of service, not properly a ma , consisting of part of the eucharistic of fice, but without consecration. such as the naval or nautical ma , or the ma of the presanctified. The same name was also given to an office consisting of part of the ma . As for the rumours that have or do go abroad, either of our relenting or ma ing , we trust that they which know God and their duty towards their brethren in Christ will not be too light of credence. Bp. Ridley, in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 83. Ma ing priestt, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Christ's doctrine is, that he is "the way": but this doctrine maketh the ma ing - priest the way. = J. Bradford , Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 293. ma 2 (mas), n. [ ma e , ma e , F. ma e = Pr. ma a = Sp. masa = Pg. It. ma a = OHG. ma a, MHG. G. ma e = Dan. ma e Sw.ma a, ma a , a lump, ma (as of dough, pitch, salt, cheese, metal, stone, etc.), prob. μᾶζα , a barley cake; cf. μάγμα , a kneaded ma , μάσσειν , knead: see macerate. Hence ult. maslin1 .] 1. A body of coherent matter; a lump, particularly a large or unformed lump: as, a ma of iron or lead; a ma of flesh; a ma of rock. Right in the midst the Godde e selfe did stand Upon an altar of some costly ma e. Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 39. One common ma composed the mould of man. Dryden, Sig. and Guis., 1. 502. Myro's Statues, which for Art surpa All others, once were but a shapele Ma . Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 2. An a emblage or collection of incoherent particles or things; an agglomeration; a congeries; hence, amount or number in general: as, a ma of sand; a ma of foliage, of troops, etc. I remember a ma of things, but nothing distinctly. Shak ., Othello, ii. 3. 289. In our study of anatomy there is a ma of mysterious philosophy. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 36. 3. The bulk or greater part of anything; the chief portion; the main body. The great ma of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries. Jefferson, Works, VIII. 68. The great ma of human calamities, in all ages, has been the result of bad government. Story, Misc. Writings, p. 618. 4. Bulk in general; magnitude; ma ivene . Witne this army of such ma and charge. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. 47. 5. The quantity of any portion of matter as expre ed in pounds or grams, and measured on an ordinary balance with the proper reduction for the buoyancy of the atmosphere; otherwise, the relative inertia, or power in reaction, of a body. For example, if two bodies at rest, but free to move, as a vacuo and a bullet in it, gun suspended i rec ting well then there suddenly velocities will be inversely as their ma es, and this phenomenon best defines ma . It is usually confounded with weight, which is more properly the force with which a body is accelerated in the direction in which a plummet points, in consequence of the earth's attraction and rotation. Thus, if a piece of lead which is found to weigh a pound at the base of the Washington monument is transported to the top, it will be found to weigh a pound there, for its ma is unchanged. But if only the piece of lead and the balance are carried to the top of the monument, while the weight against which it has been weighed is left at the base, and there attached to the balance at the top by means of a long string or wire (the weight of which is to be properly allowed for), the piece of lead would be found to have lost the weight of one third of a grain, the weight thus varying though the ma does not. The destructive effects of a cannon-ball are due entirely to its ma and to the relative speed with which it impinges on the target, and would be exactly the same (for the same relative speed) in regions so far from the earth or other attracting body that the ball had practically no weight at all.. When we open a large iron gate properly hinged, it is the ma with which we have to deal; if it were lying on the ground and we tried to lift it, we should have to deal mainly with its weight. Tait , Properties of Matter. ma 6. In entom., the terminal joints collectively of an antenna when they are enlarged and closely appre ed to each other, forming a clava or club. -7. A large bunch of strung beads (12 small bunches fastened together). - Blue ma . See blue ma . Buccal ma . See buccal. - Center of ma . See center1.- Cleavage-ma . See cleavage. - Exploding ma , in cephalopods. See extract under sperm a to phore. Flat ma es. See blanket - deposit. - Levy in ma . See levy1. - The ma es, the great body of the people, especially of the working cla and the lower orders; the populace.