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masse 267 matelot
masse des ecoles, (Fr. a.) school and instruction
fund (to meet expenses connected with target
practice, with instruction in fencing, boxing,
field fortification, etc.);
en , in a mass, together; (mil.) massed, in
mass;
d'enlretien du flarnacJiement etfenage (Fr. a.)
harness and shoeing fund (applied to a variety
of purposes; harness, shoeing, lighting of stables,
etc.);
d'enirelien et remonte, (Fr. a.) a fund peculiar
to the gendarmerie, used to reimburse
n. c. o. and men for loss of horses and of ef-
fects;
fer de , scrap iron;
desfournges, (Fr. a.) forage fund;
& frapper et h donner, earth rammer, pile
driver;
grande , (met.) main body of a blast fur-
nace;
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d'habillement et d entretien,(Fr. a.) clothing
fund (applied to all expenses connected with
the men's clothing, e. g., repairs, alterations,
noire, slush fund (U.S.A.);
ordinaire, (art.) recoil chock;
par , by the lump;
passive, liabilities;
petite inferieure, (met.) hearth of a blast
furnace;
petite superieure, (met.) shaft;
principe des s conjuguces, (fort.) in defilading,
the principle of conjugate masses (i. e.,
of covering the opening between two masses
by a third mass, the three being arranged
checkerwise and having their end faces in the
same plane);
de remonte, (Fr. a.) remount fund (special
tothespahis);
ressuee, (met.) copper reduced by liquation;
de secours, (Fr. a.) relief fund (peculiar to
_
the gendarmerie and spahis; used in relieving
'the most needy);
& tranche & trancher, track iron.
masse, in., (met.) ball, bloom.
masseau, m., v. massiau.
masselet, m., (met.) small bloom.
masselotte, f., (fond.) feeding head, riser; deadhead,
sinking head; headmetal; (mach. etc.)
weight; (art.) plunger, plunger sleeve (of a
fuse); guard;
de ba'ionnette, (sm. a.) portion of socket to
which the blade is welded;
spfierique, (art.) hammer of the Merriam
fuse.
masser, v. a., (mil.) to mass, dispose in mass; to
form mass.
masset, m. , (met.) synonym of loupe.
massette, f., miner's hammer; (artif.) rocket
stamp;
de cantonnier, stonebreaker's hammer.
massiau, m., (met.) the loupe transformed into a
more or less regular parallftlopipedon.
massicot, m., litharge, massicot.
massif, m., mass of rocks; clump of trees; mass
or main body of any building or part of a
building, or of any construction (e. p.. of a
dam, of an embankment); main or solid part
of anything; foundation, substructure; shell
of a blast furnace; (in top. drawing) any solid
block or area (as, a pond, house, lake, etc.);
(artif.) drift; solid part of a rocket; (top.
aggregation, mass of mountains about a central
summit; (fort.) mass of earth supporting
or constituting a parapet.
exploitation, ouvragc, par s longs, ('min.)
panel working;
d'un puils, (min.) pillar of a shaft;
de terre, (fort.) mass of earth supporting a
parapet.
massif, a. massive, solid, heavy.
massivage, m., (cons.) tamping, packing, of concrete.
massiver, v. a., to mix and settle mortar concrete
by tamping or beating.
massoque, f., (met.) bloom, slab; bloom obtained
by dividing a masse in two; (in pi.)
pieces of iron composing the blast plate of
de' harnachemen, (Fr. a. )harness fund (used
to meet expenses connected with harnessing
of horses and mules, shoeing, treatment of
sick etc.)'
de haui-fourneau, (met.) body of a blast
furnace;
individuette, (Fr. a.) soldier's fund (peculiar
to the spahis, gendarmerie, and a Catalan furnace; exterior parts of a Catalan
bloom.
massoquette, f., (met.) bloom obtained by
sapeurs-pompiers
de Paris);
d'infirmerie, (Fr.'a.) hospital fund (applied
to the purchase of food for the sick on special
diet, and to other small expenses arising in
hospitals);
levee en v. s. v. , levee;
de lumiere, (art.) bush of a gun (cast in with
the piece, obs.);
magnetique, (elec.) magnetic mass;
de mire, (art., sm. a.) sight mass, sight
patch;
dividing
a massoque in two.
massoquin, m., (met.) synonym of massoque.
mastic, m., cement; putty; mastic;
artiliciel, artificial mastic (mixture of slate
dust and coal tar);
d'asphalle, asphaltique, asphalt]c, mastic;
bitumineux, bituminous cement;
de ciment, mastic cement;
defer, iron cement;
defonte, iron cement;
de limaille defer, v. defer;
nafurel, v. asphaltique;
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des vitriers, glazier's putty.
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masticate, m., cementing.
mastlgadour, m., (harn.) slobbering bit; bit of a
watering bridle.
mastiquer, v. a., to putty, cement.
masure, f., old hovel; rickety old house.
mat, a., dead, heavy, unpolished; m., dead surface,
dead color,
mat, m., mast;
& s eth cordes, (nav.) under bare poles;
d'artimon, (nav.) mizzenmast;
de beaupre, (nay.) bowsprit;
de charge, derrick;
de fortune, (nav.) jury mast;
grand , (nav.) mainmast;
de misaine, (nav.) foremast;
de pavilion, flagstaff;
de pavilion de beaupre, (nav.) jackstaff ;
semapliorique, (r. r.) Signal post;
de signaux, sienal mast;
de tente, tent pole.
matable, a., (met.) susceptible of being jumped,
upset.
matage, m., (met.) jumping, upsetting; beating
flat; (hence) closing, tightening of joints:
ft la poudre, (art.) process of hardening bronzo
guns by a lir de matage, q. v. .
matage, m., masting.
matasiette, f., (expl.) a dynamite whose dopo
consists of ocher, sand, powdered charcoal,
and a resinous substance (40 per cent nitroglycerin).
matelas, m., mattress; backing; layer; lining;
(fort.) backing, armor-plate backing;
& air, air cushion.
en bois, wood backing for armor plates;
elaslique, any elastic backing;
de gravier, gravel layer (foundation
road etc.);
de sable, (fort.) sand backing
for a
or layer;
de terre, layer of earth;
& vapeur> steam cushion.
matelasser, v. a., to pad.
matelassure, f., pad , padding; wadded lining
of a breastplate; armor-plate backing.
matelot, m., seaman sailor (as a grade corresponds
to private in the army);
- canonnier, seaman gunner;