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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Phar.)</fld> <def>A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; <as>as, blue <ex>mass</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A large quantity; a sum.</def>

<blockquote>All the <b>mass</b> of gold that comes into Spain. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He had spent a huge <b>mass</b> of treasure. <i>Sir J. Davies.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Bulk; magnitude; body; size.</def>

<blockquote>This army of such <b>mass</b> and charge. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The principal part; the main body.</def>

<blockquote>Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the <b>mass</b> of the fugitives in their escape. <i>Jowett (Thucyd.).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Mass</i> and <i>weight</i> are often used, in a general way, as interchangeable terms, since the <i>weight</i> of a body is proportional to its <i>mass</i> (under the same or equal gravitative forces), and the <i>mass</i> is usually ascertained from the <i>weight</i>. Yet the two ideas, <i>mass</i> and <i>weight</i>, are quite distinct. <i>Mass</i> is the quantity of matter in a body; <i>weight</i> is the comparative force with which it tends towards the center of the earth. A <i>mass</i> of sugar and a <i>mass</i> of lead are assumed to be equal when they show an equal <i>weight</i> by balancing each other in the scales.</note>

<cs><col>Blue mass</col>. <cd>See under <er>Blue</er>.</cd> -- <col>Mass center</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>the center of gravity of a triangle.</cd> -- <col>Mass copper</col>, <cd>native copper in a large mass.</cd> -- <col>Mass meeting</col>, <cd>a large or general assembly of people, usually a meeting having some relation to politics.</cd> -- <col>The masses</col>, <cd>the great body of the people, as contrasted with the higher classes; the populace.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Mass</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.</def>

<blockquote>But <b>mass</b> them together and they are terrible indeed. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Massacre</h1> <Xpage=899>

<hw>Mas"sa*cre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. LL. <ets>mazacrium</ets>; cf. Prov. G. <ets>metzgern</ets>, <ets>metzgen</ets>, to kill cattle, G. <ets>metzger</ets> a butcher, and LG. <ets>matsken</ets> to cut, hew, OHG. <ets>meizan</ets> to cut, Goth. <ets>m\'a0itan</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; <as>as, the <ex>massacre</ex> on St. Bartholomew's Day.</as></def><-- St. Valentine's Day massacre; Amritsar massacre; the Wounded Knee massacre. -->

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Murder.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Massacre</er>, <er>Butchery</er>, <er>Carnage</er>.</syn> <usage> <i>Massacre</i> denotes the promiscuous slaughter of <i>many</i> who can not make resistance, or much resistance. <i>Butchery</i> refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts. <i>Carnage</i> points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain.</usage>

<blockquote>I'll find a day to <b>massacre</b> them all, And raze their faction and their family. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Brhold this pattern of thy <b>butcheries</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Such a scent I draw Of <b>carnage</b>, prey innumerable ! <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Mas"sa*cre</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Massacred</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Massacring</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>massacrer</ets>. See <er>Massacre</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.</def>

<blockquote>If James should be pleased to <b>massacre</b> them all, as Maximian had <b>massacred</b> the Theban legion. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Mas"sa*crer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who massacres.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

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