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-- Mass copper,
native copper in a large mass. -- Mass
meeting, a large or general assembly of people, usually
a meeting having some relation to politics. -- The
masses, the great body of the people, as contrasted
with the higher classes; the populace.

Mass, v. t. To form or collect
into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into
masses; to assemble.

But mass them together and they are terrible
indeed.

Coleridge.

Mas"sa*cre (?), n. [F., fr. LL.
mazacrium; cf. Prov. G. metzgern, metzgen, to
kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to
cut, hew, OHG. meizan to cut, Goth. máitan.]
1. The killing of a considerable number of human
beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the
usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St.
Bartholomew's Day.

2. Murder. [Obs.] Shak.

Syn. -- Massacre, Butchery, Carnage.

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