Dictionary: MAS – MASZ

► MASARD n. the face; hence, the nose → 1602
► MASCALE n. the common green caterpillar → 1856 Eng. dial.
► MASCHERATE vb. to disguise the appearance of something, to mask, to conceal → 1654 obs.
► MASCLE n. a spot, a speck → 1400 obs.
► MASCULARITY n. masculinity → 1817
► MASCULATE vb. to make masculine → 1623
► MASCULINE adj. of material things or physical qualities: powerful in action strong, such as herbs, cider, etc. → 1637 obs.
► MASCULINE-FEMININE n. a mannish woman → 1620 obs.
► MASCULINE WHORE n. a homosexual male → 19C sl.
► MASCULO-FEMININE adj. partly masculine and partly feminine → 1646
► MASCULOUS adj. masculine, characteristic of a man → 1619 obs.
► MASE n. a spot, a freckle → 1527 obs.
► MASER n. anything out of the uncommon; a wonder; something unusual; an eccentric person → 1890 Eng. dial.
► MASERS n. measles → 1561 obs.
► MASH adj. hot, warm → 1880 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a confused mixture; also, a muddle; a mistake → 1598
n. 2. a large quantity; a considerable number → 1846 Eng. dial.
n. 3. heat, a condition of heat and perspiration → 1880 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a dandy, a fop, a swell → 1882 sl.
n. 5. a person who is the objection of infatuation → 1888 sl.
n. 6. a crush, a love affair; an infatuation → 20C US sl.
n. 7. a term of admiration for anything fine, esp. of dress → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 8. the thread of a screw → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 9. a loved one; a sweetheart → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to mix, to mingle → 1591 obs.
vb. 2. to bungle, to make a ‘hash’ of → 1642 obs.
vb. 3. to apply an injurious blow or pressure to; to crush, to smash, to suffer crushing of some part of the body → 1832 Amer. dial.
vb. 4. to infuse tea → 1845 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to do anything in a bustling hurry, to rush about → 1882 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to fascinate or excite sentimental admiration in one of the opposite sex → 1882 sl.
vb. 7. to strike, hit, or beat someone → 1884 Amer. dial.
vb. 8. to court; to make a pass at → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MASHED adj. 1. infatuated; smitten; love-struck; amorous; usually constructed with ‘on’ → 1880 sl.
adj. 2. drunk → 1942 Amer. sl.
► MASHED UP adj. 1. exhausted, overcome → 1888 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. drunk, pissed → 1990 UK sl.
► MASHER adj. characteristic of a ‘masher’, foppish, dandyish → 1884 sl.
n. 1. a dandy or fop of affected manners and exaggerated style of dress who frequented music-halls and fashionable promenades and who posed as a lady-killer → 1882 sl.
n. 2. a male flirt; a philanderer → 20C US sl. & colloq.
► THE MASH EYE n. a flirtatious glance → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MASH FROGS vb. to break wind → 1970 Amer. dial. jocular usage 
► MASHIE n. an iron golf club → 1881
► MASHING n. courting, flirting → L19 sl.
► MASHLUM n. a mixture of any kind of edibles → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MASHMENT n. a muddle → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MASH NOTE n. a love-letter → 1890 sl.
► MASH-ON n. an infatuation → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MASHUGGAH adj. crazy, mad → 1892 sl., orig. Jewish-Amer.
► MASH UP vb. strike, hit, or beat someone → 1954 Amer. dial.
► MASHY n. an iron golf club → 1881
► MAS JOHN n. a jocular or contemptuous term for a Scottish Presbyterian minister, in contradistinction to an Anglican or Roman clergyman → 1661 arch.
► MASK n. 1. in hunting: the face or head of a fox; occasionally of an otter → 1828
n. 2. a quantity, a mass → 1889 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the face, without any kind of disguise → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 4. the mast of a ship → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to be bewildered; to lose one’s way → 1290 obs.
vb. 2. to take part in a masque or masquerade; to masquerade → 1562 obs.
vb. 3. to infuse tea → 1814 Sc.
vb. 4. in cookery: to cover meat with any rich sauce, ragout, etc. → 1877
► MASKED adj. amazed, bewildered → 1290 obs.
► MASKEE! int. never mind! it’s not important! → M19 Anglo-Chinese
► MASKEL n. 1. the common green caterpillar → 1856 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a small shrivelled apple → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASKEN n. a masquerade or masquerading costume → 1578 obs.
► MASKELL n. the common green caterpillar → 1856 Eng. dial.
► MASKER n. 1. a mask → 1532 obs.
n. 2. a mummer, a guiser → 1848 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex → 725 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to be bewildered → 1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to choke, to stifle → 1790 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to decay, to rust → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASKERED adj. confused, bewildered, as by losing one’s way in fog, snow, or darkness → 1691 Eng. dial.
► MASKERY n. masking, wearing of masks; a masquerade → 1548 obs.
► MASKFUL adj. of the nature of masquerade → 1655 obs.
► MASKILL n. the common green caterpillar → 1856 Eng. dial.
► MASKING adj. 1. bewildering → 1387 obs.
adj. 2. hypocritical → 1577 obs.
► MASKING POT n. a teapot → 1786 Sc.
► MASLEY adj. of wood: knotty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASLIN adj. mixed, mingled → 1544 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. a mixture, a medley → 1574 obs.
► MASMORE n. an alleged term for a castle dungeon → 1789 Sc.
► MASO n. a masochist → 1960 US sl.
► MASON n. 1. one who acquires goods fraudulently by giving a bill which he does not intend to honour → 1753 sl. obs.
n. 2. a town’s main street, esp. when it delineates the line between the Black and White communities → 19C African-American sl.
n. 3. a masculine male homosexual → 1940 US homosexual sl.
n. 4. a lesbian assuming a masculine role → 1940 US homosexual sl.
n. 5. a man who performs anal copulation on males; a pederast → M20 US sl.
► MASONER n. 1. a mason or bricklayer → 1605 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. one who acquires goods fraudulently by giving a bill which he does not intend to honour → 1753 sl. obs.
vb. to do the work of a mason → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASONESS n. a female freemason → 1833
► MASONICS n. secrets → L19 UK society sl.
► MASON LINE n. a town’s main street, esp. when it delineates the line between the Black and White communities → 19C African-American sl.
► MASONRY n. secret signs and passwords → M19 sl.
► MASON-WORD n. a masonic password → 1695 Sc.
► MASONY vb. to work as a mason; to follow the trade of a mason → 1695 Sc. (Bk.)
► MASQUE n. a masquerade, a masked ball → 1514
► MASQUERADE n. 1 .an assembly of people wearing masks and others disguises (often of a rich or fantastic kind) and diverting themselves with dancing and other amusements; a masked ball → 1597
n. 2. one who takes part in a masquerade → 1651 obs.
n. 3. disguise; false, outward show; pretense → 1674
n. 4. a travesty, counterfeit → 1847
► MASQUERADISH adj. befitting a masquerade → 1681
► MASQUIN n. a masquerade or masquerading costume → 1578 obs.
► MA’S ROOM n. a women’s indoor toilet → 1967 Amer. dial. jocular usage
► MASS adv. very → 1927 Amer. dial.
int. an exclamation and oath → 1592
n. 1. a title prefixed to the Christian name of a minister of religion → 1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. pride, haughtiness, self-conceit → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. to massage → 1786
► THE MASS n. the generality of mankind; the main body of a race or nation → 1675
► MASSA n. master → 1774 African-American
► MASSA CHARLEY ► MASSA CHARLIE n. any White man → 1920 African-American sl.
► MASSACRE n. a cruel or peculiarly atrocious murder → 1589 obs.
vb. to mutilate, to mangle → 1589 obs.
► MASSACREE n. massacre → 20C jocular usage
vb. to massacre, to butcher, to kill; to destroy life by accident → 1891 Eng. dial.
► MASSACROUS adj. pertaining to massacre; cruelly murderous → 1593 obs.
► MASS AND MEAT n. prayers and food → 1827 Sc.
► MASS-CLOSET n. a Roman Catholic chapel → 1656 obs.
► MASSÉ vb. to massage → 1887
► MASSEDNESS n. massiveness → 1398 obs.
► MASSENGER n. ? an inmate of a religious house → 1553 obs.
► MASSER n. 1. one who celebrates mass; a mass-priest; also, one who attends mass → 1000 obs.
n. 2. one who practices massage; a masseur or masseuse → 1888
n. 3. a merchant → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
n. 4. a shopkeeper, a mercer → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
n. 5. a privy, a jakes → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASSER-SCOURER n. a ‘gong-farmer’ or scavenger → 1515 obs.
► MASSE-STAPLER n. a rogue disguised as a woman → 18C Brit. sl.
► MASSEUR n. a man who practices massage → 1876
► MASSEUSE n. a woman who practices massage → 1876
► MASSEY-HARRIS n. cheese → 20C Can. sl.
► MASS-GOSPELLER n. a protestant who (hypocritically) attends mass → 1555 obs.
► MASS-HOUSE n. a Roman Catholic place of worship → 1555 obs.
► MASSIFUL adj. merciful → 1815 Amer. dial.
► MASSILY adv. massively → 1400 obs.
► MASSINESS n. massiveness → 1570
► MASSING CLOSET n. a Roman Catholic chapel → 1656 obs.
► MASSIVE adj. of person: bulky, large-bodied → 1485 obs.
► MASS JOHN n. a clergyman or minister of religion → 1685 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MASS-MAN n. a Roman Catholic → 1889 Ireland
► MASS-MONGER n. a term of contempt for a Roman Catholic → 1550 arch.
► MASS-MONGING adj. contemptuous for Roman Catholic → 1607 arch.
► MASS-PRIEST n. a priest whose function it is to celebrate mass → 893 arch.
► MASSY adj. 1. solid, not hollow → 1382 obs.
adj. 2. of persons and animals: bulky, large-bodied → 1400
adj. 3. self-important, conceited; boastful, bragging → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
int. an exclamation of surprise, indignation, etc. → 1867 Eng. dial.
► MASSY ALIVE! int. an exclamation → 1852 Amer. dial.
► MASSYMORE n. an alleged term for a castle dungeon → 1789 Sc.
► MASSY SAKES! int. an exclamation → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MASSY UPON ME! int. an exclamation → 1817 Amer. dial.
► MAST n. 1. a collective name for the fruit of the beech, oak, chestnut, and other forest trees, esp. as food for swine → 825
n. 2. master → 1460 obs.
n. 3. luxurious or fattening food → 1575 obs.
n. 4. in billiards: a kind of heavy cue, of which the broad end was used for striking → 1731 obs.
n. 5. in golf: a pin → 1920 Brit. sl.
vb. 1. to feed animals on mast; to fatten → 974 obs.
vb. 2. to feed oneself gluttonously → 1560 obs.
► MASTAGE n. the fruit of forest trees collectively → 1610 obs.
► MASTARD n. a stallion → 1598 obs.
► THE MA STATE n. New South Wales → L19 Aust. colloq.
► MASTER adj. chief, principal; great, best; remarkable → 1750 Eng. & Amer. dial.
adv. 1. extremely, very → 1750 Eng. & Amer. dial.
adv. 2. exceedingly, a great deal → 1913 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a man to whose care a child or children are committed for purposes of instruction; a tutor, preceptor; in later use, chiefly a teacher in a school, a schoolmaster; also, a professional teacher of some special subject, as an art or a language → 888
n. 2. one having direction or control over the action of others; a director, a leader, a chief, a commander; a ruler, a governor → 1000 obs.
n. 3. he whose disciple one is; the teacher (in religion, philosophy, art, science, or scholarship) from whom one has chiefly learned, or whose doctrines one accepts → 1200
n. 4. a man of approved learning, a scholar of authority → 1225 obs.
n. 5. one who overcomes another; a victor → 1290
n. 6. a possessor, an owner → 1400
n. 7. a husband → 1400 Eng. dial.
n. 8. the owner of a living creature, as a dog, horse, slave; also, the man whom an animal is accustomed to obey → 1400
n. 9. an artist of distinguished skill, one who those who are regarded as models of excellent in their art → 1533
n. 10. the male head of a house or household → 1536
n. 11. prefixed to names of animals to denote the leader of a herd, or one superior in fighting strength to the rest, as ‘master hog’ → 1589
n. 12. the eldest son of a baron or viscount → 1798 Sc.
n. 13. an employer; the head of a shop or works; the name given to a farmer by the farm labourers → 1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 14. the boy whom another serves as a ‘fag’ → 1833 Brit. public school usage
n. 15. an adult; a young man when grown up → 1834 Eng. dial.
n. 16. a bull → 1842 Amer. dial. euphemism
n. 17. a term of address to a superior or stranger; Sir → 1846 Eng. dial.
n. 18. a respectable, well-dressed man; a gentleman; any individual → 1851 Eng. dial.
n. 19. one distinguished for any quality of mind or body; anything good of its kind → 1866 Eng. dial.
n. 20. a landlord, a laird → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 21. the eldest son of a squire → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 22. the leader of a herd of cows → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 23. the parson of a parish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to have at one’s disposal; to own, to possess → 1593 obs.
vb. 2. to defeat, to overcome, to best → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 3. to domineer → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THE MASTER n. the conductor of a train → 1931 Can. railroadmen’s sl.
► MASTERABLE adj. capable of being mastered → 1882
► MASTER-BEAST n. 1. the most influential person; the victor, the winner → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 2. the most powerful beast in a herd; the leader of a herd → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTER-BEE n. a queen bee → 1579 obs.
► MASTER-DADDY n. a troublesome child, one who tries to get the upper hand → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTERDOM n. 1. the office of a master or teacher → 1050 obs.
n. 2. victory in battle → 1475 obs.
n. 3. the condition of being a master or ruler; dominion, rule, ascendancy, control → 1588 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. masterful behaviour → 1596 obs.
► MASTEREST adj. biggest; greatest → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTERFAST adj. bound to a master → 1913 Amer. dial.
► MASTERFUL adj. 1. violent, overwhelming → 1513 obs.
adj. 2. spiteful → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 3. wonderful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
adv. very → 1933 Amer. dial.
► MASTERFULLY adv. violently, forcibly → 1792 Sc.
► MASTER HAND n. a highly skilled worker → 1709
► MASTERHEAD n. the condition or quality of being a master → 1382 obs.
► MASTER-HOUSEHOLD n. master of the household → 1536 obs.
► MASTER-HUNT n. the master of the hunt → 1656 obs.
► MASTERING adj. of an army, a garrison: superior in force → 1711 obs.
► MASTER JOHN THURSDAY n. the penis; a personification of the penis → 17C sl.
► MASTER KETCH n. a hangman → M17 sl., orig. UK criminals’ usage 
► THE MASTER KNOB n. the ship’s captain → 19C Brit. sl.
► MASTERLESS n. that cannot be mastered; ungovernable → 1619 obs.
► MASTERLIKE adj. resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill → 1580 obs.
► MASTERLING n. 1. one who has the power of a master; a conqueror, a chief → 1200 obs.
n. 2. a petty master; a would-be master → 1869 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MASTERLY adj. characteristic of a master or lord; usually in a bad sense, arbitrary, despotic; imperious, overbearing, domineering → 1531 obs.
► MASTERLY INACTIVITY n. deliberate and carefully-judged lack of activity → 1791 
► MASTER-MAN n. 1. a person skilled in some art or craft → 1250 obs.
n. 2.  a chief, a leader → 1300 chiefly Sc. obs.
n. 3. an employer of work-people → 1400
n. 4. an overlooker, a ruler, a governor → 1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. the head of a family or household; a husband → 1885 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a person of self-willed and violent temper → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTER MANIAC n. a master mechanic → 1930 US railroad usage
► MASTER MIND n. a master mechanic → 20C Can. railroadmen’s sl.
► MASTER-MISS n. an effeminate youth → 1754 obs.
► MASTER OF THE ROLLS n. a baker → 1831 sl.
► MASTEROUS adj. characteristic of a master → 1642 obs.
► MASTER-PEN n. the chief feather of a bird → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTER OF CEREMONIES n. the penis → 19C Brit. sl.
► MASTER OF THE BLACK ART n. a beggar → L16 Brit. sl.
► MASTEROUS adj. very large → 1905 Amer. dial.
adv. very, extremely → 1904 Amer. dial.
► MASTERPIECE adj. chief, great, wonderful → 1895 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a person’s greatest achievement; an action of masterly ability → 1605
n. 2. the most important feature, or the chief excellence, of a person or thing → 1612 obs.
n. 3. the penis → 19C Brit. sl. & jocular usage
n. 4. the original or main piece → 1825
n. 5. a self-willed person; one who persists in having his own way → 1895 Eng. dial.
► MASTER-PIG n. the largest and strongest pig in a sty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTER-PRIZE n. a masterpiece → 1604 obs.
► MASTERS AND MISSES n. young people → 1754
► MASTER’S PRIZE n. a masterpiece → 1604 obs.
► MASTER WOMAN n. an imperious or masculine woman → 1534 obs.
► MASTER-WORK n. 1. an action or procedure of chief importance → 1606
n. 2. a work of pre-eminent merit; a masterpiece → 1617
► MASTERY n. 1. superior force or power → 1297 obs.
n. 2. a department of skill or knowledge; an art or science → 1300 obs.
n. 3. a competitive or emulative feat of strength or skill → 1390 obs.
n. 4. predominance; predominating feature; prevailing character → 1477 obs.
► MAST-FED adj. irregularly educated → 1912 Amer. dial.
► MAST-HEAD n. a person’s head → 1884 jocular nautical usage
► MASTICABILITY n. the capability of being masticated or chewed → 1849
► MASTICABLE adj. that may be masticated or chewed → 1846
► MASTICATE vb. to grind food to a pulp with the teeth; to chew → 1649
► MASTICATION n. the act of chewing → 1565
► MASTICATORS n. the teeth or jaws → 1694 jocular usage
► MASTICATORY adj. pert. to mastication, chewing, champing → 1611
► MASTICE n. a mastiff dog → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTICK n. an acorn, the fruit of the oak, Quercus robur → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTIE-DOG n. a mastiff dog → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTIFF adj. 1. massive, solid, bulky → 1495 obs.
adj. 2. burly, big-bodied → 1668 obs.
► MASTIGOPHOBIA n. an abnormal fear of being beaten → 1991 (Bk.)
► MASTIGOPHORE n. in Greek antiq.: ‘an usher that with strikes makes way in a croud’ → 1658 obs.
► MASTIGOPHORER n. ‘a fellow worthy to be whipped; also, an usher, who with whips removed the people, where there was much press → 1656 obs.
► MASTIGOPHORIC adj. that carries a scourge, scourge-bearing → 1816
► MASTIGOPHOROUS adj. that carries a scourge, scourge-bearing → 1812
► MASTIN n. a mastiff dog → 1483 obs.
► MASTIS n. a mastiff dog → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTOK adj. drunk → 20C Aust. sl.
► MASTROUS adj. 1. great, extreme, wonderful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 2. very large → 1905 Amer. dial.
adv. very, extremely → 1904 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► MASTUPRATE vb. to masturbate → 1623 obs.
► MASTUPRATION n. masturbation → 1621 obs.
► MASTUPRATOR n. a masturbator → 1855
► MASTURBATIC adj. caused by masturbation → 1874
► MASTY adj. large and strong; burly, big-bodied → 1665 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. a mastiff dog → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASURES n. ruins of buildings; squalid and tumble-down habitations → 1623 obs.