Definitions
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- adjective
comparative form ofmassy : moremassy
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Examples
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The word massage is derived from the Greek word “massier” which means to knead.
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The massier paused and looked up, one finger between the leaves of the ledger.
The King in Yellow 1899
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A blow, a short rush, a clinch and scuffle, and the voice of the massier, stern and reproachful:
The King in Yellow 1899
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He is a double star, his companion being seven and himself thirteen times massier than the sun; but they are fifty times brighter, and a million times further off, that is to say, one hundred billion miles away.
A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889
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French painters of distinction, but, as we discovered later, contributing too often from his own pocket to help out the _massier_ at the end of a difficult season, or smooth the path of some improvident pupil.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884
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The great strength of the shell, however, may have in part led to this result; as I find that its stronger and massier portions, -- those of the umbo and hinge-joint, -- are exceedingly numerous in proportion to its slimmer and weaker fragments.
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This specimen suddenly terminates, at a thickness of two and a half inches, in a rounded point, abrupt as that of one of the massier cacti; and every part of the blunt sudden termination is thickly fretted over with the characteristic areolæ.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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_slates_ of _bone_, and the laying down of the very thin ones of _horn_ which cover fish such as the carp or salmon, was, that in the massier
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a light delicate tone of color seems indispensable, harmonizes well with the massier and less florid styles of the Gothic.
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