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(c) Improperly, the cow parsnip
(Heracleum lanatum).

Mas"ter*y (?), n.; pl.
Masteries (#). [OF. maistrie.]

1. The position or authority of a master;
dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the
mastery of the passages of the tops.

Sir W.
Raleigh.

2. Superiority in war or competition;
victory; triumph; preëminence.

The voice of them that shout for
mastery.

Ex. xxxii. 18.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is
temperate in all things.

1 Cor. ix. 25.

O, but to have gulled him

Had been a mastery.

B. Jonson.

3. Contest for superiority. [Obs.]
Holland.

4. A masterly operation; a feat.
[Obs.]

I will do a maistrie ere I go.

Chaucer.

5. Specifically, the philosopher's
stone.

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