Part 6864

<blockquote>In courtly balls and midnight <b>masquerades</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st <er>Mask</er>, 4.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.</def>

<blockquote>That <b>masquerade</b> of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A Spanish diversion on horseback.</def>

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<hw>Mas`quer*ade"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Masqueraded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Masquerading</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.</def>

<blockquote>A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, <b>masquerading</b> up and down in a lion's skin. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Mas`quer*ade"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To conceal with masks; to disguise.</def> "To <i>masquerade</i> vice."

<i>Killingbeck.</i>

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<hw>Mas`quer*ad"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.</def>

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<hw>Mass</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>masse</ets>, <ets>messe</ets>, AS. <ets>m\'91sse</ets>. LL. <ets>missa</ets>, from L. <ets>mittere</ets>, <ets>missum</ets>, to send, dismiss: cf. F. <ets>messe</ets>. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called <ets>missa catechumenorum</ets>, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were <ets>dismissed</ets> with these words : "Ite, missa est" [<it>sc</it>. ecclesia], the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of <i>Mass</i> to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. See <er>Missile</er>, and cf. <er>Christmas</er>, <er>Lammas</er>, <er>Mess</er> a dish, <er>Missal</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the <i>Kyrie</i>, the <i>Gloria</i>, the <i>Credo</i>, the <i>Sanctus</i>, and the <i>Agnus Dei</i>, besides sometimes an <i>Offertory</i> and the <i>Benedictus</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Canon of the Mass</col>. <cd>See <er>Canon</er>.</cd> -- <col>High Mass</col>, <cd>Mass with incense, music, the assistance of a deacon, subdeacon, etc.</cd> -- <col>Low Mass</col>, <cd>Mass which is said by the priest through-out, without music.</cd> -- <col>Mass bell</col>, <cd>the sanctus bell. See <er>Sanctus</er>.</cd> -- <col>Mass book</col>, <cd>the missal or Roman Catholic service book.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Mass</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Massed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Massing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To celebrate Mass.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hooker.</i>

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<hw>Mass</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>masse</ets>, F. <ets>masse</ets>, L. <ets>massa</ets>; akin to Gr. <?/ a barley cake, fr. <?/ to knead. Cf. <er>Macerate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; <as>as, a <ex>mass</ex> of ore, metal, sand, or water</as>.</def>

<blockquote>If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive <b>masses</b>. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A deep <b>mass</b> of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. <i>Savile.</i></blockquote>