massy

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæsi/
• Rhymes: -æsi

From Middle English massy; equivalent to mass +‎ -y.

massy (comparative massier, superlative massiest)

1. Heavy; massive.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde, / Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes / Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte, / In euery part exceding braue and rich.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 627-635:

     […] Evening now approach'd / (For we have also our evening and our morn, / We ours for change delectable, not need). / Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn / Desirous; all in circles as they stood, . TAbles are set, and on a sudden piled / With angels' food; and rubied nectar flows/ In pearl, in diamond, and massy gold, / Fruit of delicious vines, the growth of heaven.

   • 1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 165:

     And the true art for such popular display is to contrive the best forms for appearing to say something new, when in reality you are but echoing yourself; to break up massy chords into running variations; and to mask, by slight differences in the manner, a virtual identity in the substance.

   • 1874, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic:

     When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro

   • 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics, volume 1, →ISBN, abstract, pages 70-73

     We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.

• massic

massy

1. Pronunciation spelling of mercy.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

     "But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...

massy

1. Pronunciation spelling of master.

• Smays, SyAMs, Sysmä, amyss, my ass

From masse +‎ -y.

• masse, mascy, masie, masy

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasiː/

massy

1. weighty, massy, having great weight.
2. uncontaminated, unalloyed.
3. Not hollow; lacking an internal cavity.
4. tough, firm, sturdy
5. (rare) Unsculpted; not given a shape, primordial.

• massif

• English: massy
• Scots: massie

• “massī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

massy

1. Alternative form of messen (“to hold mass”)