MASTERLESS
M'ASTERLESS, adjective Destitute of a master or owner.1. Ungoverned; unsubdued.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MASTERLY
M'ASTERLY, adjective Formed or executed with superior skill; suitable to a master; most excellent; skillful; as a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly stroke of p...
MASTERSHIP
M'ASTERSHIP, noun Dominion; rule; supreme power.1. Superiority; preeminence.Where noble youths for mastership should strive.2. Chief work; master-piece. [Not used.]3. Superior s...
MASTERY
M'ASTERY, noun Dominion; power of governing or commanding.If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops--Raleigh1. Superiority in competit...
MASTFUL
M'ASTFUL, adjective [from mast.] Abounding with mast, or fruit of oak, beech and other forest trees; as the mastful chestnut.
MASTIC
MAS'TICMAS'TICATE, verb transitive [Latin mastico.] To chew; to grind with the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; as, to masticate food.
MASTICATE
MAS'TICATE, v.t. [L. mastico.] To chew; to grind with the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; as, to masticate food.
MASTICATED
MAS'TICATED, participle passive Chewed.
MASTICATING
MAS'TICATING, participle present tense Chewing; breaking into small pieces with the teeth.
MASTICATION
MASTICA'TION, noun The act or operation of chewing solid food, breaking it into small pieces, and mixing it with saliva; thus preparing it for deglutition, and more easy digesti...
MASTICATORY
MAS'TICATORY, adjective Chewing; adapted to perform the office of chewing food.MAS'TICATORY, noun A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.
MASTICH
MAS'TICH, noun [Latin mastiche.]1. A resin exuding from the mastic-tree, a species of Pistacia, and obtained by incision. It is in white farinaceous tears, of a faint smell, and...
MASTICOT
MAS'TICOT, noun Calcined white lead; yellow oxyd of lead. Lead exposed to the air while melting, is covered with a gray, dusky pellicle. This pellicle carefully taken off, is re...
MASTIFF
M'ASTIFF, nounplural mastiffs. Mastives is irregular. [Low Latin mastivus.] A large species of dog, remarkable for strength and courage. Strabo informs us that the mastiffs of B...
MASTLESS
M'ASTLESS, adjective Having no mast; as a vessel.1. Bearing no mast; as a mastless oak or beech.
MASTLIN
MASTLIN. [See Meslin.]
MASTODON
MAS'TODON, noun [Gr. mamilla, and tooth.] A genus of mammiferous animals resembling the elephant, now extinct, and known only by their fossil remains. It includes the noun Ameri...
MASTOID
MAS'TOID, adjective [Gr. the nipple or breast, and form.]Resembling the nipple or breast; as the mastoid muscle; the mastoid process.
MASTRESS
MASTRESS, for mistress, is not used.
MASTY
M'ASTY, adjective Full of mast; abounding with acorns, etc.
MAT
MAT, noun [Latin matta.]1. A texture of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, or other material, to be laid on a floor for cleaning the boots and shoes of those who enter a house,...
MATACHIN
MAT'ACHIN, noun An old dance.
MATADORE
MAT'ADORE, noun One of the three principal cards in the game of omber and quadrille, which are always two black aces and the deuce in spades and clubs, and the seven in hearts a...
MATCH
MATCH, noun1. Some very combustible substance used for catching fire from a spark, as hemp, flax, cotton, tow dipped in sulphur, or a species of dry wood, called vulgarly touch-...
MATCHABLE
MATCH'ABLE, adjective Equal; suitable; fit to be joined.1. Correspondent. [Little used.]
MATCHED
MATCH'ED, participle passive Equaled; suited; placed in opposition; married.
MATCHING
MATCH'ING, participle present tense Equaling; suiting; setting in opposition; uniting in marriage.