Reverse Dictionary: MASTER

ADJECTIVES
► MAGISTERIAL pert. to a master or teacher, or one qualified to speak with authority → 1632
– ​pert. to a master-workman; displaying a master’s skill; also, having the qualifications of a master → 1643 obs.
► MAGISTERIOUS exercising the authority of a master → 17C obs.
► MAGISTRAL pert. to or befitting a master; authoritative, dogmatic → 1605
► MAISTROUS characteristic of a master → 1642 obs.
► MASTERFAST bound to a master → 1469 obs.
► MASTERLIKE resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill → 1580 obs.
► MASTERLY characteristic of a master or lord; usually in a bad sense, arbitrary, despotic; imperious, overbearing, domineering → 1531-2 obs.
► MASTEROUS characteristic of a master → 1642 obs.
► MASTERLIKE resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill → 1580 obs.
► RICKY masterly → Bk1904 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► MASTERHEAD the condition or quality of being a master → 1382 obs.
► MASTERPIECE a person’s greatest achievement; an action of masterly ability → 1605
► MAGISTERIALITY mastership; authoritative position → 1655 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAAS a master, an employer of labour → 1625 S. Afr.
► BACKRA a master, a boss → c1790
► BACKRA-MAN a master, a boss → 1775 W. Indies
► BOSS OF THE SHANTY the master or manager of the place → Bk1892 Aust. sl.
► BUCCRA ► BUCKRA ► BUCKRAH a master, a boss → L18 African-American
► CAP the master, head, chief → 1790 Eng. dial.
► DEACON a superior or head workman; an adept, a proficient, a master; a thoroughly capable man → 1790 Sc.
► GAFF a master, the head of a house; a foreman or overseer → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GAFFER a master, a ‘governor’ → a1659 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► GOODMAN the head of an establishment; a master, chief, or manager → 1714 Sc.
► HEAD-MUCK one who takes the chief part in anything; a leader, a person of consequence, a master → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► HEAD-SHA-RAG ► HEAD-SIR-RAG one who takes the chief part in anything; a leader, a person of consequence, a master → 1893 Eng. dial.
► HECKLER a female brawler or scold; a hard master → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► MAGISTRICIDE a murderer of one’s master or teacher → 1670 nonce word
► MASSA master → 1774 US Black usage
► MAST master → c1460 obs.
► MASTER-HOUSEHOLD master of the household → 1536 obs.
► MASTERLING a petty master; a would-be master → 1869 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MONSTER-MASTER a master who is a monster → 1841
► MORENA a title of or respectful form of address used to a chief or any person in authority; hence, a chief; a master; esp. among speakers of the Sotho languages → 1840 S. Afr.
► NABS a master; a governor; an employer of labour → 1877 Eng. dial. 
► NEARDY a boss, a master, an overseer → 1864 sl. (Bk.)
► OLD a master, a boss → M19 sl.
► OMEE a master; a boss; a landlord → 1859 sl.
► PADRONE a master, employer, patron, or proprietor → 1670
► YED-SIRAG a master, overseer → Bk1887 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► GET THE MASTER OF A PERSON to become or act the master over → 1887 Brit. colloq.
► HAVE BOILED PIG AT HOME to be master in one’s own house → 1785 colloq.
► HAVE THE HANK IN ONE’S OWN HAND ► HOLD THE HANK IN ONE’S OWN HAND  to be master of the situation; to hold one’s own → 1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LIVE WITH ONE’S UNCLE to have a kind master → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MAISTRIE to master → c1412 obs.
– to make oneself master of; to conquer → 1636 obs obs.
► MATCH to manage; to master → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► NAIL to get right, to master → 1989 US colloq.
► NEW to oppress, to keep under, to master; to curb; to maul → 1768 Sc.
► SIGNORIZE IT to play the master → 1611 obs.