Massy

Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls.

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.

Eevning approachd / (For we have alſo our Eevning 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 pil'd / With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows: / In Pearl, in Diamond, and maſſie Gold, / Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heav'n.

This utter'd, ſtraining all his nerves he bow'd, / As with the force of winds and waters pent, / When Mountains tremble, thoſe two maſſie Pillars / With horrible convulſion to and fro, / He tugg'd, he ſhook, till down they came and drew / The whole roof after them, […]

Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.

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.

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.

1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss "But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...