Mass

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To celebrate Mass.

II. Mass ·noun A large quantity; a sum.

III. Mass ·noun Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

IV. Mass ·noun The principal part; the main body.

V. Mass ·noun The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.

VI. Mass ·noun The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

VII. Mass ·noun A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

VIII. Mass ·vt To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to Assemble.

IX. Mass ·noun The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition;

— namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.

X. Mass ·noun 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, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water.

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