Massonieæ (masoniee)

pl. [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, 1883), Ma or a, Ma or etic, etc. See Masora, etc. ma -penny (mas'pen"i), n. [ Gif us A Goddes halfpeny, or a ma e - peny . Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 41. As soon as the Credo was done, the offering, if the day happened to be one of those upon which it had to be given, was made by all the people, each of whom walked up to the foot of the altar to leave their gift, or, as it used to be called, the ma -penny, in the basin held by a clerk, or upon the celebrant's own hand, covered with the broad end of his stole. Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 192.