[Your] christening of bells, marting of pardous, tossing of heads, &c.-Bp. Hall, Epist. 1. Dec. 1.

Where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so throng'd, so drain'd, and so supplied, As London. Cowper. Task, b. i.

MARTE'L, v. Fr. Marteau; It. Martello; Sp. Martello. Fr. Marteler,Martus, martellus, and marteau, says Wachter; for malleus, a hammer or mallet, are from Ger. Barten, to beat, and by no means a marte: what more usual than to exchange the labials? Others,-from the Lat. Martulus, a small mallet. See Menage, and the etymology suggested for the Lat. Man, in v. MARRY, ante. Yet therewith sore enrag'd, with stern regard Her dreadfull weapon she to him addrest, Which on his helmet martelled so hard

That made him low incline his lofty crest,
And bow'd his batter'd visour to his brest.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 7.

MARTEN, or Į A. S. Mearthe; Fr. Marte; MA'RTERNE. S It. Martora; Sp. Marta; Low Lat. Martures; Dut. Marter; Ger. Marder; Sw. Mærde; Lat. Martes; a name that seems to comea Marte, because it destroys poultry and other birds; Vi martia, (Vossius and Gesner.) Wachter seems to think the Ger. Marder may be from the verb Morden, to murder, or murther.

It shall suffice in this sort to haue named them as I doo finallie the marterne, a beast of the chase, although for number I worthilie doubt whether that or our beuers or marterns may be thought to be the lesse.

MARTIAL. MARTIALLY. MARTIALIST.

Holinshed. Description of England, c. 4. Fr. Martial; It. Marziale; Sp. Martial; Lat. Martialis, from Mars, the god of war. Warlike, of or pertaining to war or battle; military, courageous; also (as in the French likewise) "born under the planet, or being of the humour of Mars."

They haue their land wholly, Their triumph eke, and marshall glory.

Chaucer. The Flower and the Leaf.
Though virtue be the same when low she stands
In th' humble shadows of obscurity,

As when she either sweats in martial bands,
Or sits in court clad with authority.

Daniel. To the Countess of Bedford.

The natures of the fixed stars, are astrologically differenced by the planets, and are esteemed martial or jovial according to the colours whereby they answer these planets. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 14.

Whilst cyther king thus martially
Defends, and did offend,
They breathing, king Canutus said:
"We both I see shall end,
Ere empire shall begin to one."

Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 21. He [Sir Robert Knowles] died at his manour of SconeThorp in Norfolk, in peace and honour, whereas Martiallists generally set in a cloud, being at least ninety years of age. Fuller. Worthies. Ches-shire.

I made him chief commander in the field
Next to myself, and gave him the full prospect
Of honour and preferment; trained him up

In all perfections of a martiallist.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Laws of Candy, Act v. sc. 1.

Rinaldo flies, with martial ardour prest,
His courser spurs and bears his lance in rest:
No longer in the ranks remain'd confin'd,
But leaves the Scots an arrow's flight behind.

Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Euen in the force and rode of casualtie.

Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 9.

With these the martin readily concurr'd,
A church begot and church-believing bird;

Of little body but of lofty mind,
Round-belly'd, for a dignity design'd,
And much a dunce, as martins are by kind.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther.

If they should alight upon the ground, they could by no means raise themselves any more, as we see those birds which have but short feet, as the swift and martinet, with difficulty do.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

MARTINGALE. Fr. Martingale; It. and Sp. Martingala. See the quotation from Berenger. Lord what a hunting head she carries, sure she has been ridden with a martingale.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act ii. sc. 1. The martingale, invented by Evangelista, an eminent horseman of Milan, is a long strap, or thong of leather, the one end of which is fastened to the girth, between the fore legs, and the other to the bit, or, which is the better way, should have a thin mouth piece of its own.

Berenger. The History and Art of Horsemanship, c. 10. MARTYNMASSE. The feast of Saint Martin. After the martynmesse that he died here, He regned more ni lesse than six and fifty_gere. R. Brunne, p. 230.

(For Easter) at Martilmas, hang up a beef.

MARTYR, v. MA'RTYR, n. MARTYRDOM. MA'RTYRIZE, V. MARTYROLOGE. MARTYROLOGY. MARTYROLOGIST. MARTYRSHIP.

Tusser. Husbandry. November. Fr. Martir, martirer; It. Martire; Sp. Martir; Lat. Martyr; Gr.MapTup; which, as Vossius observes, dcnotes a witness; but (he adds) he is peculiarly so called by Christians, who not with his mouth only, but with his blood, bears witness to heavenly truth. To martyr is to put a martyr to leath; generally, to put to death:-" to torment or afflict extremely," (Cotgrave.)

Seth the God was y bore, ther nas for Cristendom
In so lute stonde y do so gret martirdom.

For ther were in a moneth seuentene thousant and mo
Y martired for oure Lorde's lone, (nas not here gret wo?)
R. Gloucester, p. 81.
Y martred as thilke tyme, Seynt Albon was on,
That was the firste martir, that to Engolond come.
Id. p. 82.
Witness hereof is Arilde that blessed Virgin,
Which martyrized at Kinton.
Id. App. p. 582.
For he worrede Cristendom, as the luther Nero,
And let martri Seyn Denys, and mony other al so.

Id. p. 71. He gate of hir S. Edward, that is the martere. R. Brunne, p. 85. For luf of S. Thomas, That for holy kirke suffred martirdam. d. p. 148. He writeth also to Tymothe of exortacioun to martirdom and of euery reule of treuthe.-Wiclif. 2 Timothy, Pref.

Save only me, and wretched Palamon, That Theseus martireth in prison.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tabe, v. 1565.

If any word than come to minde,
That thou to say hast left behinde,
Than thou shalt brenne in great martire,

For thou shalt brenne as any fire.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.
Who coude rime in English properly
His martirdom? forsooth it am not I.

Id. The Knightes Talc, v. 1462.
Abhominable, shameless, starke madde, & faithless
beastes, hangemē, martyrquellers, &c.
Sir T. More. Workes, p. 360.

So doest thou now to her of whom I tell,
The lovely Amoret, whose gentle hart
Thou martyrest with sorow and with smart.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7.
How canst thou but blush to read of that heathen martyr
Socrates, who when the message of death was brought to
him, could applaud the news as most joyfull.
Bp. Hall. The Balm of Gilead.
The Pharisees were huge hypocrites, and adorned the
monuments of the martyr-prophets.
Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 4.
To her my heart I nightly marlyrize.
Spenser. Colin Clout's come home againe.
Whereat Cadwallin wroth shall forth issew
And an huge hoste into Nurthumberland lead,
With which he godly Oswald shall subdew,
And crowne with martiredome his sacred head.
Id. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 8.
Two other kings as much as our martyrologe may sted,
Saint Edward, and with him comes in St. Ethelred, &c.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 24.
The martyrologics, to the honour of the eleven thousand,
have dedicated the eleventh day of October.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 3. Selden. Illustrations.

By their own losses [these] have learned better to value the lives of others, and now will willingly allow martyrship to those from whom they wholly with-held, or grudgingly gave it before.-Fuller. General Worthies, c. 3.

Here his abode the martyr'd Phocian claims
With Agis, not the least of Spartan names.

Pope. The Temple of Fame.

Let softer strains ill-fated Henry mourn,
And palms eternal flourish round his urn.
Here o'er the martyr-king the marble weeps,
And, fast behind him, once-fear'd Edward sleeps.

Id. Windsor Forest.

Those pictures have always the greatest effect, which represent some passion, as the martyrdom of St. Agnus by Domenichino.-Sir W. Jones. Ess. On the Imitative Arts.

Probably it is Saint Thomas, represented, as in the martyrologies, with the instrument of his death.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 3.

MA'RVEL, v.
MA'RVEL, n.
MA'RVELLING, n.
MA'RVELLOUS.

MA'RVELLOUSLY.

MARVELLOUSNESS.

wonder.

To wonder, to feel great admiration or astonishment.

This tyme [Anno 23. H. III.] master Robert Bacon, with master Edmunde of Abyngdone floreshed in Oxenforde, of the crafte of whiche Bakon many marvailes buth I tolde. R. Gloucester, p. 520.

Me meruailes of my boke, I trowe, he wrote not right.
R. Brunne, p. 65.
Oft tille our Inglis men was schewed a mervaile grete,
A darte was schot to them, bot non wist who it schete.
Id. p. 178.
Sir, ouer meruailous our duellyng here is hard.
Id. p. 174.
His dede [death] com him suythe meruellosly.-Id. p. 93.
And seiden, for we han seen marueylouse thingis to day.
Wiclif. Luke, c. 5.

So that it to me nothynge meruayleth

My sonne, of loue that the ayleth.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. With that to God vpon his knee

Thankend he toke his sight anone,

Whereof thei meruaile everychone.-Id. Ib. b. ii.

When Jesus heard yt he marueled and seyde to them that folowed him.-Bible, 1551. Matthew, c. 8.

Oft do I marvel, whether Delia's eyes

Are eyes; or else two radiant stars that shine! For how could nature ever thus devise

Of earth [on eartb] a substance so divine.-Daniel, s. 30. And he answered, Behold, I wil make a couenant before all thy people, [and] will do marueils, such as haue not bene done in all the worlde, neither in all nations: & all the people among whome thou art shal see the worke of the Lord.-Bible, 1583. Exod. xxxiv. 10.

With which they wrought such wondrous marvels there,
That all the rest it did amazed make,
Ne any dar'd their perill to partake.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 4. On S. Martin's eeuen a great thunder ouerthrew many houses and trees in England, to the maruailing of many. Stow. Edw. I. an. 1280. Whence he indued was with skill so marucilous.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.

Grat. You looke not well signior Anthonio, You haue too much respect vpon the world: They lose it that doe buy it with much care, Beleeue me you are maruellously chang'd.

Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act i. sc. 1. The marvellousness of some works, which indeed are natural, hath been the cause of this slander.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 11. s. 2. Thirdly, the marvellous speedy groth of birds that are hatch'd in nests, and fed by the old ones there, till they be fledg'd and come almost to their full bigness. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. The article of the resurrection seems to lye marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. South, vol. iii. Ser. 6. And much he marvell'd with himself to know, That, self-conducted to his fate, the foe Fell in the snare. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xlv. Use lessens marvel, it is said.

Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 2. A lock of it [Jane Shore's hair] (if we may believe tradition) is still extant in the collection of the Countess of Cardigan, and is marvelously beautiful, seeming to be powdered with golden dust without prejudice to its silken delicacy. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vok i. c. 3. MA'SCULINE. Fr. Masculin; It. and Sp. MA'SCULINELY. Masculino; Lat. Masculinus, from mas, a male. See the etymology suggested for mars or mas in v. MARRY.

And with thoportunite and noblesse of thy masculine children, that is to sayn thy sonnes.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii. The one imperfect, mortall, foeminine; Th' other immortall, perfect masculine.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 9. A constant and prudent zeal is the best testimony of our masculine and vigorous heats.-Bp.Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 15.

Aurelia

Tells me, you have done most masculinely within,
And play'd the orator.-B. Jonson. Catiline, Act iii. sc. 3.
But others expound ep'

to signifie masculinely, and to relate to Adam; viz. that in him we all sinned.

Bp. Taylor. Deus Justificatus.

The flowers serve to cherish and defend the first tender rudiments of the fruit: I might also add the masculine or prolifick seed contained in the chives or apices of the stamina.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

All other people have laid the foundations of Civil freedom in severer manners, and a system of a more austere and masculine morality.-Burke. On the French Revolution. MASH. See MESH. MASH, v. See SMASH. Skinner says,-A MASH, n. mash for a horse, perhaps from MA'SHY. the Ger. Mischen; Dut. Mirschen, (i. e. the A. S. Misc-ian,) to mix or mingle; but the verb to mash he derives from the Fr. Mascher, to chew. The first etymology will be sufficient for noun and verb. As applied in brewing, to mash is simply

To mix, (sc.) malt with the water; to reduce to the state of things so mixed; to rub or beat into the same mixture.

The hens run in the mash fat.—Id. Ib. He maye happe ere aught long, to fal into the meshing fatte and tourne hymselfe into draffe, as the hogges of hel shal feede vpon and fyll theyr belies therof. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 679. [Let] there be yokes of fresh and new-laid eggs, boil'd moderately hard to be mingl'd and mash'd with the mustard, oyl and vinegar.-Evelyn. Acetaria.

I doubt mainly, I shal be i' th' mash too.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Captain, Act iii. sc. 3.

Bray. I have made a fayr mash on't.
B.Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 11.

Suspended by the dreadful shock he hung,
The brazen beaks within his bosome rung;
Blood, bones, and entrails, mashing with the blow.

Rowe. Lucan, b. iii.

To raise from leaven'd wheat the kneaded loaf;
To mash the malted barley, and extract
Its flavour'd strength.

MASK, v.

MASK, n.

MA'SKER, n. MA'SKER, V. MA'SKERY. MASKERA'DE, or MASQUERA'DE, n. MASQUERA'DER. MA'SKING, n.

Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 1. Dut. Masche, mascke; Fr. Masquer, masque; It. Mascherare, maschera; Sp. Mascara; Fr. Masquerade; It. Mascherata; Sp. Mascara. The etymologists have written largely and elaborately upon this word, especially the contributors to the Etymologique de la Langue Françoise of Menage; all very unsatisfactorily. (See them.) Salmasius,from the Gr. Baokavia, (fascinum,) larva, worn to avoid fascination. Menage and Skinner,-from the Arabic Mascara, sport, jest, or joke. (See also Maske in Wachter.) Martinius, (in v. Masca,)— from the Dut. Masche, a net, to veil the face. Kilian observes that there is a class of idle fellows who walk veiled (densis reticulis) with thick nets, who are commonly named Net-bouen, who can see through the meshes (retis maculus) and

A mask is applied, first, to a visor or cover to the face, worn to disguise it; an entertainment at which the parties wore such masks; generally, an entertainment or revelry; consequentially, a disguise or concealment.

And all the worthy dwelling enuiroun
Young, fresh, and lusty he gadrid to the toun,
Maskewed his wals and his toures.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. Thus in the net of my conceit,

I masked still among the sort Of such as fed vpon the bayte, That Cupide laide for his disporte. Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer that once disdained Loue, &c.

Some haue I sene ere this, ful boldlie come daunce in a maske, whose dauncing became theym so well, that yf theyr vysours had beene of theyr faces, shame woulde not haue suffered theym to set forth a foote. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1039. Cause them to be deprehended and take and their maskers taken of and theyr hipocrisie to be dyscouered. Id. Ib. p. 758. Yet wrote he at an other tyme to pope Zachary, to see the manifest abusyons of Rome reformed, specially theyr maskynges in the night after the Pagan's manner. Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. Hoodwinked he [the workman] is sure ynough for seeing densusque reticulus) about his head, for doubt that hee the way too and fro, and hath a thicke coife or mask (persona should bestow any [frankincense] in mouth or eares.

Holland. Plinie, b. xii. c. 14.

After whom marcht a jolly company,
In manner of a maske, enranged orderly.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12.
One time the king came sodainly thither in a maske with
a dozen maskers all in garments like sheepeheards.
Slow. Hen. VIII. an. 1516.

And, when they ceast, it gan again to play
The whiles the maskers marched forth in trim aray.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12.

So Demetrius threw aside his masker's habit, and attiring himself poorly, did fearfully steal away out of his own camp. Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. iv. c. 7. s. 7.

And dimming the brightnesse of true honour, with the counterfeit shine of the contrarie, [they] so maskered his vnderstanding, that in the end they brought him to tract the steps of lewd demeanour, and so were causers both of his and their owne destruction.

Holinshed. History of England, an. 1377.

Mac. Wee'l first thank heauen And then wee'l see some maskery.

Nabbes. The Unfortunate Mother, E. 3.

If it were but some mask-house, wherein a glorious (though momentary) show were to be presented, neither white staves nor halberts could keep you out.-Bp. Hall. Cont. b. iv. And seen of life's delights the last extremes,

I found all but a rose hedg'd with a brier,
A naught, a thought, a masquerade of dreams.
Drummond. Urania, s. 2.

A bird's was proper, yet he scorns to wear
Any but that which might his thunder bear.
Down with his masquerading wings he flies
And bears the little Trojan to the skies.

Croxall. Ovid. Metam. b. x. But the battery raised for the demolition of both [the kingdom and priesthood of Jesus Christ] was masked with such an hypocrisy as the world never saw before, nor (it is to be hoped) will ever see again. Horne. Works, vol. v. Dis. 9. Meanwhile the face Conceals the mood lethargic with a mask Of deep deliberation, as the man Were task'd to the full strength, absorb'd and lost. Cowper, Task, b. iv. What if I give a masquerade?—I will., But how? aye, there's the rub! (pausing) I've got my cue: The world's a masquerade! the maskers you, you, you. Goldsmith. Epilogue to the Comedy of the Sisters. The dreadful masquerader, thus equipt, Out-sallies on adventures.-Young. Complaint, Night 5. MA'SON, v. Fr. Masson; Low Lat. MaMA'SON, n. chio, or Macio. Du Cange deMA'SONRY. rives from Lat. Maceria, a long wall. Others from Machine, because the builders stood upon machines to raise their walls. It appears to be obviously the same word as Maison, a house or mansion; applied to the person who builds, instead of the thing built. The Fr. Maisonner, is to build houses. Massoner, to build of stone. It is applied by usage to→→

MASO'RAH.

See the quotation from Grew. Masorah, a certain Critica Sacra, wherein are delivered the varieties of writing and reading throughout the Old Testament, not performed by any other author, but the successive labours of many, and continued for some hundreds of years, probably begun about the time of the Mackabees, certainly before the Jerusalem Talmud, a Hebrew comment on the law; which is observed to mention some of the masoretick notes, and was first published, as saith Calvisius, in the year of our Lord 396. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 1.

Ye have an author great beyond exception, Moses; and one yet greater, he who hedg'd in from abolishing every smallest jot and tittle of precious equity contained in that law, with a more accurate and lasting masoreth, than either the synagogue of Ezra or the Galilæan school at Tiberias hath left us.-Milton. Doct. of Divorce. To the Parlament. MASQUERA/DE. See MASK.

MASS. Fr. Masse; It. and Sp. Massa; MA'SSY. Lat. Massa; Gr. Maju, from MA'SSINESS. Maoo-ev, subigere, to beat or MA'SSIVE. press (into a lump.) Sp. Massar, amassar, to knead the dough. See AMASS. The quantity or magnitude formed by collecting or compressing into one heap or bulk; a heap or accumulation, a bulk or body, a lump.

Answere me with truth:

Wherto was wrought the masse of this huge hors?
Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii.
The vessels eke that were of massy gold,
And vestures spoiled, were gather'd all in heap.

Id. Ib. b. iv. Belike bicause lande and mountaines are rare, which minister cause and matter of tempests, and because a deepe masse of continuall sea is slower sturred to rage. Savile. Tacitus. Agricola, p. 188. Wee bee certainly informed, that our said enemie is purposed and prepared to flye the land, hauing alreadie made ouer great masses of the treasure of our crowne, the better to support him in forraine parts.

Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 159, On which there stood an image all alone Of massy gold. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 11. Matchable to these was the famous platter of Esope the Tragædian, saue that it was more notorious for the daintinesse of the provision which he served in it, then for the massines of the dish itselfe.-Hakewill. Apol. b. iv. c.7. 8.1.

There shall we find, that when the world began,
One common mass compos'd the mould of man,
One paste of flesh on all degrees bestow'd,
And kneaded up alike with moistening blood.

Dryden. Sigismonda & Guiscardo.
No sideboards then with gilded plate were dress'd,
No sweating slaves with massive dishes press'd.

Congreve. Juvenal, Sat. 11. The common military sword is a heavy massive weapon, for close engagement: wielded by a strong and skilful arm, it stabs and cuts, opens dreadful gashes where it falls, severs limbs, lops the head, or cleaves the body.

Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 7. Rude was the pile, and massy proof, That first uprear'd its haughty roof, On Windsor's brow sublime, in warlike state. Warlon. Ode for the New Year, 1788,

Would you not deeme It breath'd? and that those veins Did verily beare blood?

Pol. Masterly done:

The very life seems warme vpon her lippe.

Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act v. sc. 3. Must we learn from canons and quaint sermonings, interlin'd with barbarous Latin, to illumine a period, to wreath an enthymema with masterous dexterity.

Millon. Apology for Smectymnuus.

The kinds of this seignoury, Seneca makes two: the one, potestas aut imperium, power or command: the other, proprietas aut dominium, propriety or mastership: the correlative of the one is the subject, of the other the slave.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 9. s. 1.

What good in parts in many shar'd we see,
From Nature, gracious Heaven, or Fortune flow,
To make a master-piece of worth below,
Heaven, Nature, Fortune, gave in gross to thee.

Drummond. On the Death of a Nobleman.

Let us not number, but weigh your texts: the rather, for that I find these as your master-proofes, set as challengers in every of your defences.

Bp. Hall. An Apology against the Brownists. Yet let me touch one point of this great act, That famous seige, the master-work of all.

Daniel. On the Death of the Erle of Devonshire. Those masters then, but seen, not understood, With generous emulation fir'd thy blood: For what in nature's dawn the child admir'd, The youth endeavour'd, and the man acquir'd.

Dryden. Ep. To Sir Godfrey Kneller.

With just bold strokes he dashes here and there,
Showing great mastery with little care,
Scorning to varnish his good touches o'er,
To make the fools and women praise the more.

Rochester. Allusion to Horace, b. i. Sat. 10.

One single person has performed in this translation, what I once despair'd to have seen done by the force of several masterly hands. Theobald. Censor, vol. ii. p. 33.

Then to preserve the fame of such a deed,
For Python slain, he Python games decreed,
Where noble youths for mastership should strive
To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i.

Should you no honey vow to taste, But what the master-bees have plac'd In compass of their cells, how small A portion to your share will fall.

Waller. To Zelinda.

In her [Dorinda] and in thy picture, we may view
The utmost Nature, or that Art, can do,
Each is a masterpiece, design'd so well,
That future times may strive to parallel.

Pomfret. To the Painter. Some painters will hit the chief lines and masterstrokes of a face so truly, that through all the differences of age, the picture shall still bear a resemblance.

Waller. Poems, pt. ii. Pref. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school.

Goldsmith. The Deserted Village.

Nor are the masterly strokes perceived with more exquisite relish and satisfaction, than the negligencies or absurdities with disgust and uneasiness.-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 1.

So for instance, the tongue serves not only for tasting, but also to assist the mastication of the meat and deglutition, by turning it about and managing it in the mouth.

Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. But now I eat my meals with pain, Averse to masticate the grain.

Cotton, Fab. 6.

•The lentiskes also have their rosin, which they call mastick. Holland. Plinie, b.xiv. c. 20.

Or Gellia wore a velvet mastick patch
Upon her temples when no tooth did ach.

Bp. Hall, b. vi. Sat. 1. As for the small particles of brick and stone, the least moistness would join them together, and turn them into a kind of mastich, which those insects could not divide.

And on the structure next he heaps a load
Of sulphur, turpentine, and mastic wood.

Addison.

Garth. The Dispensary, c. 3.

MA'STIFF Fr. Mestif, mastin; It. Mastino; Sp. Mastin. Skinner derives from maesten, saginare, to fatten, because it is a dog of a large size, and on that account appears the fatter. Minshew, -from maison tenant, because he keeps or guards the house. Manwood,—as in the quotation from Pennant.

On ther first eschel he smot in fulle hastif,
& thorgh tham ilka del, als grehound or mastif.
R. Brunne, p. 189.
The mastiffe dog is voyded well
that barcks or ere he bite.
Turbervile. To Browne of Light Beliefe.

As when an eager mastiffe once doth prove
The taste of bloud of some engored beast,
No words may rate, nor rigour him remove
From greedy hold of that his blouddy feast.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 9.
Two mastiffs gaunt and grim her flight pursu'd,
And oft their fasten'd fangs in blood embru'd,
Oft they came up, and pinch'd her tender side,
"Mercy, O mercy, heav'n," she ran and cry'd.

Dryden. Theodore & Honoria.

The next is the mastiff or ban dog, a species of great size and strength, and a very loud barker. Manwood (Forest Law) says, it derives its name from Mase the thefe, being supposed to frighten away robbers by its tremendous voice. Pennant. British Zoology. The Mastiff.

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MAT, v. A. S. Meatta, meatle; MAT, n. Matte; Ger. Matte; Sw. Matta; MATTRESS. Lat. Matta, which Martinius derives from the Heb. Mittah, a bed or couch. Wachter,-from Ger. Meid-en; A. S. Mithan, to cover. The Fr. Natte, from Lat. Matta, (Menage.) Applied to

An intertexture or interweaving of rushes, straw, or other material. And to mat,

To cover or protect with mat; also, to interweave into a close or thick mass; to close, thicken, or join closely into one mass.

At length I on a fountain light,

Whose brim with pinks was platted;
The bank with daffadillies dight
With grass, like sleave was matted.

Drayton. The Quest of Cynthia.
In the skin the fibers are matted as wool is in a hat;
which is a kind of artificial skin.-Grew. Cosmo. Sac. b. 1. c. 4.
Flees breed principally in straw or mats, where there hath
been a little moisture.-Bacon. Naturall Historic, § 696.
The knotted oaks shall showers of honey weep,
And through the matted grass the liquid gold shall creep.
Dryden. Virgil, Past. 4.
Or on the mat devoutly kneeling,
Would lift her eyes up to the ceiling.

Swift. The Progress of Love. Born of rich parentage, and nicely bred, She lodg'd on down, and in a damask bed. Yet fearing not the dangers of the deep, On a hard mattress is content to sleep.

Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 6. Where Cam, meandering thro' the matted reeds, With loitering wave his groves of laurel feeds. Warton. The Triumph of Isis. MATACHIN. Fr. Matachin, matassin; It. Mattacini; Sp. Matachin. Danza de matachenes,

Now move to war her sable matadores,
In show like leaders of the swarthy Moors.

Pope. The Rape of the Lock, c. 3. MATCH, n. Fr. Mèche, meiche; It. Miccia, miccio; Sp. Mecha; Low Lat. Myra, ellychnium lucernæ, from the Gr. Muga, which (Vossius) properly signifies mucus, but metaphorically-ellychnium, quodque emungitur de lucernâ. Cotgrave explains the Fr. Meiche,

The wick or snuff of a candle; the match of a lamp; also, match for a harquebuse. It is applied to

Any unctuous or resinous substance; or a material dipped in an unctuous or resinous substance, for the purpose of speedy ignition.

Lyght fuyr in the mattche.

Piers Plouhman, p. 330.

Of the grapes which this Palma Christi, or Ricinus doth carie, there be made excellent wicks or matches for lamps and candles, which will cast a most cleare light. [Ellychnia claritatis præcipuæ.]-Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 4.

Nor will it [the smoke of sulphur] easily light a candle, until that spirit be spent, and the flame approacheth the match.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 12.

We took a piece of match, such as soldiers use, of the thickness of a man's little finger, or somewhat thicker.

MATCH, v. MATCH, n. MATCHABLE. MA'TCHING, n. MA'TCHLESS.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 29. See To MAKE, v.

To pair or couple, to intermarry. Matchless, that do not match; that cannot be matched.

A match, (e. g. at cricket,) in which the contending parties are matched or made equivalent to each other, or opposed, as of equivalent skill or strength.

Right as our first letter is now an A
In beautie first so stood she makeles,
Her goodly looking gladed all the prees.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. i.

Gower. Con. A. b. v.

But certes she was euil matched, And fer from all lques kinde. Than the kynge sayde, is my sonne deed or hurt, or on the yerthe felled; no sir quoth the knight, but he is hardely matched, wherfore he hathe nede of your ayde.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 130.

If al such as beleue wel theselfe, wer as loth to hear any word spoken wrong against ye faith, as they wold be to speake it thyem selfe: there shoulde neither felowship of their matches nor feare of any such as are after the worldly compt accompted for theyr betters any thing let or wtstād the both by worde, and countenance to shew them self plainly to hate and detest and abhorre utterlyc, the pestilent contagion of al such smoky comunication. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1035. Some raign'd, whose acts of state did grace the stage, By rebels' ruines, strangers put to shame, Which might have match'd the best of any age, If they had beene as fortunate to fame. Stirling. Domes-day. The sixth Houre. Ferrers his taberd with rich verry spread, Well known in many a warlike match before. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. ii. To tell my forces matchable to none, Were but lost labour.

Spenser. The Ruines of Time. Yet we durst not venture, or so much as once thinke

time; so called from Matar, to kill, because they seem to kill one another, (Delpino.) I believe, says Skinner, from the It. Matto, (mad,) from the mad gestures which the dancers use. Mr. Douce suppees the numes Dance of fools (quiere madcaps) and Dance of matachins to be equivalent.

The frisking fairies oft when horned Cynthia shines,
Before me as I walk dance wanton matachines.
Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 6.

Als as she double spake, so heard she double,
With matchlesse eares deformed and distort
Fil'd with false rumors and sedition's trouble.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1.