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Assay masterAssay As*say", n. [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See
Essay, n.]
1. Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more
easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
--Milton.
2. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread
or wine. [Obs.]
This can not be, by no assay of reason. --Shak.
3. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk;
hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.]
Through many hard assays which did betide.
--Spenser.
4. Tested purity or value. [Obs.]
With gold and pearl of rich assay. --Spenser.
5. (Metallurgy) The act or process of ascertaining the
proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy;
especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or
silver in bullion or coin.
6. The alloy or metal to be assayed. --Ure.
Usage: Assay and essay are radically the same word; but
modern usage has appropriated assay chiefly to
experiments in metallurgy, and essay to intellectual
and bodily efforts. See Essay.
Note: Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace.
Assay master, an officer who assays or tests gold or silver
coin or bullion.
Assay ton, a weight of 29,1662/3 grams. Baggage master
Baggage master Bag"gage mas`ter
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or
upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]
Bandmaster
Bandmaster Band"mas`ter, n.
The conductor of a musical band.
Barmaster
Barmaster Bar"mas`ter, n. [Berg + master: cf. G. Bergmeister.]
Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the
barmote. [Eng.]
barmasterBurghmaster Burgh"mas`ter, n.
1. A burgomaster.
2. (Mining) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or
boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and
barmaster. [Eng.] Bathymaster signatusRonchil Ron"chil, n. [Cf. Sp. ronquillo slightly hoarse.]
(Zo["o]l.)
An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the
North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish. [Written also
ronquil.] Beemaster
Beemaster Bee"mas`ter, n.
One who keeps bees.
Bemaster
Bemaster Be*mas"ter, v. t.
To master thoroughly.
BergmasterBergmaster Berg"mas`ter, n.
See Barmaster. BoroughmasterBoroughmaster Bor"ough*mas"ter, n. [Cf. Burgomaster.]
The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough. BurghermasterBurghermaster Burgh"er*mas`ter, n.
See Burgomaster. BurghmasterBurghmaster Burgh"mas`ter, n.
1. A burgomaster.
2. (Mining) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or
boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and
barmaster. [Eng.] BurgomasterBurgomaster Bur"go*mas`ter, n. [D. burgemeester; burg borough
+ meester master; akin to G. burgemeister, b["u]rgermeister.
See 1st Borough, and Master.]
1. A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland,
Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England
and the United States; a burghmaster.
2. (Zo["o]l.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus
glaucus), common in arctic regions. Craftsmaster
Craftsmaster Crafts"mas`ter (-m?s`t?r), n.
One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.
In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. --Holland.
Cremaster
Cremaster Cre*mas"ter (kr?-m?s"t?r), n. [NL., from Gr. ???,
fr. ???? to hang.]
1. (Anat.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the
testicle.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an
insect.
Cremasteric
Cremasteric Crem`as*ter"ic (kr?m`3s-t?r"?k), a. (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric
artery.
Dancing masterDancing Dan"cing, p. a. & vb. n.
from Dance.
Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose
profession is to dance in the temples, or for the
amusement of spectators. There are various classes of
dancing girls.
Dancing master, a teacher of dancing.
Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught. Docimastes ensiferusSwordbill Sword"bill`, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long,
slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird. Drillmaster
Drillmaster Drill"mas`ter, n.
One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.
--Macaulay.
Forage masterForage For"age (?; 48), n. [OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr.
forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum,
fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G.
futter. See Fodder food, and cf. Foray.]
1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
--Shak.
One way a band select from forage drives A herd of
beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. --Milton.
Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. --Marshall.
2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and
cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. --Dryden.
Forage cap. See under Cap.
Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing
forage and the means of transporting it. --Farrow. Harbor master
Harbor master Har"bor mas`ter
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations
respecting the use of a harbor.
Ironmaster
Ironmaster I"ron*mas`ter, n.
A manufacturer of iron, or large dealer therein. --Bp. Hurd.
Job master 5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
[Colloq.]
Note: Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for
jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job
master; job horse; job wagon, etc.
By the job, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each
piece of work done; -- distinguished from time work; as,
the house was built by the job.
Job lot, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold
out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for
the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.
Job master, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire,
as for family use. [Eng.]
Job printer, one who does miscellaneous printing, esp.
circulars, cards, billheads, etc.
Odd job, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional
work, of various kinds, or for various people. Language masterLanguage Lan"guage, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua
the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See
Tongue, cf. Lingual.]
1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;
specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the
voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the
organs of the throat and mouth.
Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which
usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two
or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to
the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one
person communicates his ideas to another. This is the
primary sense of language, the use of which is to
communicate the thoughts of one person to another
through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are
represented to the eye by letters, marks, or
characters, which form words.
2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other
instrumentality.
3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas,
peculiar to a particular nation.
4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an
individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
Others for language all their care express. --Pope.
5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man
express their feelings or their wants.
6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of
ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
There was . . . language in their very gesture.
--Shak.
7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or
department of knowledge; as, medical language; the
language of chemistry or theology.
8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.]
All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
down and worshiped the golden image. --Dan. iii. 7.
Language master, a teacher of languages. [Obs.]
Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction;
discourse; conversation; talk.
Usage: Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect.
Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended
use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the
language of articulate sounds; tongue is the
Anglo-Saxon tern for language, esp. for spoken
language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the
forms of construction peculiar to a particular
language; dialects are varieties if expression which
spring up in different parts of a country among people
speaking substantially the same language. Masted
Masted Mast"ed, a.
Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition;
as, a three-masted schooner.
MastedMast Mast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Masted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Masting.]
To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in
position; as, to mast a ship. Master
Master Mast"er, n. (Naut.)
A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds;
as, a two-master.
Master
Master Mas"ter, v. i.
To be skillful; to excel. [Obs.]
Master of the buckhoundsBuckhound Buck"hound`, n.
A hound for hunting deer.
Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal
household. [Eng.] Master of the revelsRevel Rev"el, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport.
See Revel, v. i.]
A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or
merrymaking; a carousal.
This day in mirth and revel to dispend. --Chaucer.
Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels.
--Rambler.
Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of
misrule, under Lord.
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