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Mass

M`ASS, n. [L. massa, a mass; Gr. to beat or pound.]
1. A lump; a body of matter concreted, collected or formed into a lump; applied to any solid body; as a mass of iron or lead; a mass of flesh; as mass of ice; a mass of dough.
2. A collective body of fluid matter. The ocean is a mass of water.
3. A heap; as a mass of earth.
4. A great quantity collected; as a mass of treasure.
5. Bulk; magnitude.
This army of such mass and charge.
6. An assemblage; a collection of particulars blended, confused or indistinct; as a mass of colors.
They lose their forms, and make a mass
Confused and black, if brought too near.
7. Gross body of things considered collectively; the body; the bulk; as the mass of people in a nation. A small portion of morbid matter may infect the whole mass of fluids in the body.
M`ASS, n. [Low L. missa. The word signifies primarily leisure, cessation from labor, from the L. missus, remissus, like the L. ferioe; hence a feast or holiday.] The service of the Romish church; the office or prayers used at the celebration of the eucharist; the consecration of the bread and wine.
M`ASS, v.i. To celebrate mass. [Not used.]
M`ASS, v.t. To fill; to stuff; to strengthen. [Not used.]
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Abyss Acacia Accumulate Actinolite Action Add Added Agglomerate Agglomeration Aggregate Aggregated Aggregately Aggregating Aggregation Aggregator Agnomination Alabaster Allagite Allanite Allochroite Allophane Alluvium Altarage Alum-earth Alumin Aluminite Amass Ambergris Ambligonite Amice Ammonia Ammonium Ammony Analcim Ancony Andalusite Anomorhomboid Anthophyllite Apatite Aphrite Apophyllite Arragonite Arsenic Arthrodia Associate Assortment Atmosphere Axinite Azure Balance Ball Bank Barolite Barystrontianite Basalt Bastion Beamy Bed Bergmanite Bildstein Block Blomary Bloom Body Boll Bolus Borax Border Boundary Bowlder Brain Bread Brick Buhrstone Bulk Bullion Butment Button Cake Calice Canon Capstan Carat Carnage Cawk Chabasie Chafery Chantry Chaos Cheese Chelmsfordite Chert Chesible Chrome Chrysolite Clinkstone Clod Clog Clot Clotted Clotty Clump Coadunition Coagmentation Coagmented Coagulate Coalesce Coalescing Coalition Cobalt Cochineal Cohere Cohesibility Cohesion Cohesive Collation Collective Collectively Collectiveness Colliquefaction Colophonite Column Combination Commemoration Commingle Commixtion Commixture Commonweal Composition Compound Compounding Comptonite Concoagulation Concorporate Concorporation Concrement Concrete Concreted Concreting Concretion Concretive Concreture Confine Conflagration Confound Confusedly Congeal Congealed Congeries Congest Congestible Conglobe Conglobing Conglobulate Conglomerate Conglomerated Conite Consolidate Consolidation Court Crocalite Crush Crushing Cryolite Crystal Crystalization Cube Culm Cumulative Dab Datolite Deacon Delegation Demolish Destruction Detritus Disaggregate Disaggregated Dough Dumpling Dysodile Eagle-stone Earth Effervescence Egeran Electricity Elevation Embody Epaulment Epidote Epistyle Extend Exuberance Fanon Farrago Feed Felspar Flake Flaky Flow Fluidity Fluor Formation French Gabronite Gadolinite Galban Galena Gamboge Gelatin Geology Gibbsite Glacier Glacis Glass Glome Glomerate Glomerated Glomerating Glomerous Gob Gobbet Gold Grain Granit Granulate Graywacke Great Gross Ground Gut Gypsey Hail Hailstone Hair Hallowmas Hauyne Haymow Heap Heaping Heater Hedenbergite Hepatic Hepatite Heulandite Hill Hornblend Host Hotch-potch Hotchpot Iceberg Icelandic Icicle Idocrase Ieland Imbed Imbedded Imbody Import Incorporate Incorporating Incorporation Indianite Indigest Indigested Inform Ingot Inhabitation Inland Insurrection Intermixture Into Intumesce Iron Iron-clay Ironflint Island Jade Jeffersonite Jet Jumble Jumbled Jumbling Keech Kernel Knead Kneading Kyanite Laboratory Lacmus Ladanum Latrobite Laumonite Lava Lazuli Lazulite Lead Leaven Lenzinite Lepidolite Leucite Lichen Linget Liturgy Loach Loadstar Loaf Loaf-sugar Loggerhead Longitude Looping Lump Lumping Lumpy Magnesite Make Malachite Malaxation Manioc Martinmas Mash Mashed Mashing Mass Massacer Massacrer Masser Massicot Massy Masticot Mechanic Medley Meionite Mess Meteor Miemite Mingle Minium Miscellany Missal Mix Mixed Mixing Mixture Mole Molybden Molybdenum Montmartrite Moon Moonstone Mount Mountain Mow Muck Multitude Mummy Neck Nephelin Nepheline Nephrite Obsidian Ocean Offertory Olivin Omphacite Opium Opopanax Originate Orpiment Page Parcel Parish Part Particle Pass Pechblend People Peridot Petalite Pharmacolite Pier Pig Pile Pill Pillar Pinite Pisiform Placenta Plastic Plumb Plump Poach Poise Polyhalite Pomme Porphyry Potstone Prehnite Presbyter Present Prodigious Promiscuous Promiscuously Pulp Put Pye Pyrallolite Pyrite Pyrope Quantity Quarry Redeem Repellent Requiem Rhetizite Rhomb-spar Riot Rock Roll Rolling Rondle Roster Rubbidge Rutile Sagapen Sahlite Sand Scale-stone Scammony Scapolite Scenery Scoria Scotch Seat Seigniorage Selenite Septaria Settle Severite Shire Shoad-stone Shoot Shorl Shorlite Shot Sidero-clepte Silicicalce Similar Sinoper Sinople Sinter Skolezite Skoradite Slab Smithing Snow-slip Snowball Society Sod Sodalite Spinellane Spodumene Squash Squat Star-shoot Stilpnosiderite Stone Store-house Stow Straw Stream-tin Strontianite Stuff Succinite Sugar-loaf Swad Tabular Tacamahac Tafelspath Tellurium Tennantite Terre-plein Testicle Thallite Thickening Thomsonite Thumb Tint Topaz Trap-tuff Trental Trigintals Tuft Tump Tumping Tungsten Turkois Uran-ocher Vesper Vesuvian Vitriol Vulpinite Wad Wadded Wallerite Wedge Weight Wernerite Wholesale Wolfram Wool-ball Yenite Yttro-tantalite Zeolite

 

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