mastless (1)

[Eng. mast (1), s.; -le .] Having no masts; unfurnished with masts. "There is every reason to believe that she is not superior to our mastle ve els."-Brit. Quarterly Review , lvii. 117. mast-le (2), a. [Eng. mast (2), s.; -le .] Bearing or producing no mast. "A crown of mastle oak adorn'd her head." Dryden : Pulamon and Arcite , iii. 208. mast'-lin, 8. [MASELIN.] IMG:content-0985.png:[blocks in formation] Tri lophodont series: M. an gust i dens , borsout , pentelici, pyrenaicus, tajiroides (or and virgatidens , from Europe; M. falconer i and pand i on is , from India; M. ohioticus, obscurus, and product us , from North America; and M. andium and humboldtii , from South America. "Tetra lophodont series: M. arvernensis, di i mil is, and longirostris, from Europe; M. latidens , sivalensis, and per a mens is, from India; and M. mirific us , from North America. Remains of M. arvernensis and M. borsoni have been found in the crags of Norfolk and Suffolk." A fragment of a tusk, presenting the characteristic structure only known at present in elephants and mastodons, was found in a drift deposit east of More ton Bay, Queensland, and was described by Prof. Owen in Proc . Roy . Soc ., March 30, 1882. măs-tô-don-sâu-rus, s. [Eng., ., mastodon, and Gr. sauros =a lizard.] Palæont.: A genus of Labyrinthodont a founded by Prof. Jaeger on cranial remains from the Lower Keuper of Wurtemberg. The name is misleading, as the animal had no affinity with the Saurians, and is now better described as Labyrinthodon jaeger i . Casts of the remains are in the British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington.