Crossword clues for massy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Massy \Mass"y\, a. [Compar. Massier; superl. Massiest.] Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight or substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weighty; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock.
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted.
--Shak.
Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from mass (n.1) + -y (2).
Wiktionary
a. heavy; massive. n. 1 (eye dialect of mercy English) 2 (eye dialect of master English)
Usage examples of "massy".
Protestants in that city, under the pyramid which is the tomb of Cestius, and the massy walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome.
The skilful evolutions of Constantine divided and baffled this massy column of cavalry.
His cuirassiers are described as so many massy statues of steel, glittering with their scaly armor, and breaking with their ponderous lances the firm array of the Gallic legions.
The stately palaces erected by Constantine and his sons, were decorated with many colored marbles, and ornaments of massy gold.
The sideboards of massy plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and purple, were irregularly piled in the wagons, that always followed the march of a Gothic army.
The circle which encompasses the dome, lightly reposes on four strong arches, and their weight is firmly supported by four massy piles, whose strength is assisted, on the northern and southern sides, by four columns of Egyptian granite.
Arabian bows of pure and massy silver were suspended round the altar of the fishermen of Galilee.
The massy trunk was bent to the ground, but no sooner did the hurricane pass away, than it again rose with fresh vigor and more lively vegetation.
He moved along the bookcase and swung out a hinged section of a shelf at eye level to reveal a wall safe, another massy vault larger within than without.
And, mingled with the shades of twilight, lay On the brown massy woods--and in the east The broad and burning moon lingeringly rose Between the black trunks of the crowded trees, While the faint stars were gathering overhead.
The Chief Herald clasped his massy brow and gazed with eye distraught.
For, in it all Mr Massy seemed to have no sense of any person, any human being whom he was helping: he only realized a kind of mathematical working out, solving of given situations, a calculated well-doing.
The father lay inert upon the white bed, Mr Massy looked queer and obliterated, so little now that the sailor with his sunburned skin was in the room.
Then she felt a flash of fear of Mr Massy, hearing his thin, detached voice.
Mr Massy prayed with a pure lucidity, that they all might conform to the higher Will.