Part 4 (1/2)

I beseech you, Mr. Tickler, not to be so sarcastic on ”The Master.”--_Noctes Ambrosiana._

_Master_ (_The Old_). Mythical personage, whose breakfast-table monologues are among the most charming that enliven the pages of Oliver Wendell Holmes's _Poet at the Breakfast Table_. ”I think he suspects himself of a three-story intellect, and I don't feel sure that he isn't right.”

=Master Adam=, Adam Billaut, the French poet (1602-1662).

=Master Humphrey=, the narrator of the story called ”The Old Curiosity Shop.”--C. d.i.c.kens, _Master Humphrey's Clock_ (1840).

=Master Leonard=, grand-master of the nocturnal orgies of the demons. He presided at these meetings in the form of a three-horned goat with a black human face.--_Middle Age Demonology._

=Master, like Man= (_Like_).

Such mistress, such Nan; Such master, such man.

Tusser, x.x.xviii. 22.

Again:

Such master, such man; and such mistress, such maid; Such husband and huswife; such houses arraid.

T. Tusser, _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_, x.x.xix. 22 (1557).

=Master Matthew=, a town gull.--Ben Jonson, _Every Man in His Humor_ (1598).

=Master Stephen=, a country gull of melancholy humor. (See MASTER MATTHEW).--Ben Jonson, _Every Man in His Humor_ (1598).

=Master of Sentences=, Pierre Lombard, author of a book called _Sentences_ (1100-1164).

=Masters= (_Doctor_), physician to Queen Elizabeth.--Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).

_Masters_ (The Four): (1) Michael O'Clerighe (_or_ Clery), who died 1643; (2) Cucoirighe O'Clerighe; (3) Maurice Conry; (4) Fearfeafa Conry; authors of _Annals of Donegal_.

=Mat Mizen=, mate of H.M. s.h.i.+p _Tiger_. The type of a daring, reckless, dare-devil English sailor. His adventures with Harry Clifton, in Delhi, form the main incidents of Barrymore's melodrama, _El Hyder, Chief of the Ghaut Mountains_.

=Mat-o'-the Mint=, a highwayman in Captain Macheath's gang. Peachum says, ”He is a promising, st.u.r.dy fellow, and diligent in his way. Somewhat too bold and hasty; one that may raise good contributions on the public if he does not cut himself short by murder.”--Gay, _The Beggar's Opera_, i.

(1727).

=Matabrune= (3 _syl._), wife of King Pierron of the Strong Island, and mother of Prince Oriant, one of the ancestors of G.o.dfrey of Bouillon.--_Mediaeval Romance of Chivalry._

=Mathematical Calculators.=