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One of the portions equal or unequal into which anything is divided or regarded as divided something less than a whole a number quantity mass or the like regarded as going to make up with others a larger number quantity mass etc whether actually separate or not a piece a fragment a fraction a division a member a constituent...
Lammas
Lammas [said to be derived from a custom by which the tenants of the Archbishop of York were obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this day. It may be corrupted from latter-math. Others derive it from a Saxon word, signifying loaf-mass, because on that day our forefathers made an offering of bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr....
Missal
The book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year a Mass book...
Loaf
Any thick lump mass or cake especially a large regularly shaped or molded mass as of bread sugar or cake...
Knead
To work and press into a mass usually with the hands esp to work as by repeated pressure with the knuckles into a well mixed mass as the materials of bread cake etc as to knead dough...
Intermixture
A mass formed by mixture a mass of ingredients mixed...
Dalmatica
A vestment with wide sleeves and with two stripes worn at Mass by deacons and by bishops at pontifical Mass imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia...
Lump
A small mass of matter of irregular shape an irregular or shapeless mass as a lump of coal a lump of iron ore...
Hail
Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds where they are formed by the congelation of vapor The separate masses or grains are called hailstones...
Moorball
A fresh water alga Cladophora AEliggagropila which forms a globular mass...
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