massseert (masser)

One who sees or is present at a ma . "No man can serve two masters;" "he that gather eth not with Christ," as no ma -seer unreproving it doth, "scatter eth abroad." J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 53. ma uellet, n. See masuel . tion. * Let us define a ma -vector as the operation of carrying a given ma from the origin to the given point. The di rection of the ma - vector is the same as that of the vector of the ma , but its magnitude is the product of the ma into the vector of the ma . Maxwell, Matter and Motion, LIX. 3650 ma -velocity (mas'vē-los i-ti), n. The ma of matter through which the disturbance to which it belongs is propagated per unit of time per unit of cro -section. ma y (mas'i), a. [ ma y ; He was ma y & mekull, made for the nonest. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3885. Your swords are now too ma y for your strengths. Shak., Tempest, iii. 3. 67. master up of large or heavy parts. Bound betweene two Tables of ma ie Gold. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 267. A second multitude With wondrous art founded the ma y ore. IMG:content-0303.png:[blocks in formation] = Syn. Ma ive , Ponderous , etc. See bulky . mast1 (mast), n. [ mast , mast = D. mast = MLG. LG. mast = OHG. MHG. G. mast Icel. mastr = Sw. Dan. mast (not recorded in Goth.); hence OF. mast , F. mat=Pr.mat , mast = Pg. mas to , mastro , mast; perhaps radically connected with L. mal us , a mast, pole.] 1. A pole or pillar of round timber, or of tubular iron or steel, secured at the lower end to the keel of a ve el, and rising into the air above the deck to support the yards, sails, and rigging in general. A mast is composed either of a single piece, or of several pieces united by iron bands. When it is of several pieces, called a built mast or a made mast. In all large ve els the masts are composed of several lengths, called lower mast, topmast, and topgallant mast. The royalmast is now made in one piece with the topgallant mast. A mast consisting of a single length is called a pole-mast. In a full-rigged ship with three masts, each of three pieces, the masts are distinguished as the foremast, the mainmast, and the mizzenmast; and the pieces as the foremast (proper), foretopmast, fore topgallant mast, etc. In ve els with two masts with called the arenast and main they are the spanker -mast or jigger - mast. Anone the mastyr com maund eth fast To hys shyp-men in alle the hast, To dre e hem sone about the mast, Theyr takelyng to make. Pilgrims ' Sea- Voyage (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11. IMG:content-0304.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Any tall pole. We pa e by sever all tall masts set up to guide travellers, so as many miles they stand in ken one like to our beacons. Evelyn, Diary, March 23, 1646. Electric-light masts, and telegraph poles with their close network of wires cro ing and recro ing and literally obscuring the sun. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XXXIX. 222. 3. The main upright member of a derrick or crane, against which the boom abuts. Car Builder's Dict. At the mast, on the spar-deck at the mainmast, the official place of interview between men of the United States navy and their officers when a request is to be made or an offense investigated. - Before or afore the mast. See before. - Captain of the mastt, See mastman. - Dolphin of the mast. See dolphin. Hand-mast, a mast-makers' name for a round spar, at least 24 and not exceeding 72 inches in circumference. Such spars are measured by the hand of four inches, there being a fixed proportion between the number of hands in the length of the mast and that contained in the circumference, taken at one third of the length from the butt-end. Laslett. [Eng.] - Military mast, a mast carried by a war-ship for fighting purposes only, and not for setting sail. Naval ships of the most recent design are often provided with one military mast or more, carrying armored tops or platforms on which are mounted machine-guns. Such masts are also used for signaling and to provide stations for lookouts, and, in time of action, for small-arm men. Where more than one top is placed on a military mast, the lower one carries the machine-guns, and the upper the lookouts and small IMG:content-0305.png:[blocks in formation] mast. [ Masting themselves like hogs. Becon, Works, II. 425. ( Davies .) Mastacembelidæ (mas"ta-sem-bel'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Mastacembelus + -idæ .] A family of opisthomous fishes exemplified by the genus Mastacembelus , without ventrals or prominent anal papillæ, with the body eel-like, and with numerous free dorsal spines. The species inhabit fresh waters of southern Asia and of Africa, and are known as spiny - eels . mastacembeloid (mas-ta-sem be-loid), a.and n. I. a. Of, pertaining ing to, or having the characters of the Mastacembelidæ. II. n. A fish of the family Mastacembelidæ . Mastacembelus (mas-ta-sem'be-lus), n. [NL. (Gronovius), μάσταξ , the mouth, mouth, + ἐν , in. in, + βέλος , a dart: see belemnite .] A genus of tropical Asiatic fishes, type ype of the family Mastacembeli da , whose upper jaw ends in a pointed movable appendage. M. armatus is a common spiny-eel of India.