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Ma*soo"la boat` (?). A kind of boat used on the
coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of
coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the
shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced.
[Written also masula, masulah, etc.]

||Ma*so"ra (?), n. [NHeb.
māsōrāh tradition.] A Jewish critical
work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several
learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth
centuries. [Written also Masorah, Massora, and
Massorah.]

Mas"o*ret (?), n. A
Masorite. [Written also Masorete, and
Massorete.]

{ Mas`o*ret"ic (?), Mas`o*ret"ic*al (?), }
a. [Cf. F. massorétique.] Of or
relating to the Masora, or to its authors.

Masoretic points and accents, the vowel
points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the
first mention is in the Masora.

Mas"o*rite (?), n. One of the
writers of the Masora.


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