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▪ I. † mase, n. Obs. rare.
Also masse.
[a. G. mase (now dial.); cf. masers.]
A spot, freckle.
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters F iv b, The same water..withdryveth the spottys and masses oute of the face. Ibid. L ij b, Mases.
▪ II. mase, v.|meɪz|
[Back-formation from maser, the ending -er being treated as the suffix -er1 of agent nouns.]
intr. To lase, esp. in the microwave part of the spectrum. Hence ˈmasing vbl. n.
1962Engineering 2 Feb. 191 The device ‘mases’ 30 per cent of the time. 1962New Scientist 1 Mar. 486 One knows when the alignment is good enough only by the fact that the device starts to ‘mase’. 1964Encycl. Sci. Suppl. (Grolier) 308/1 Many substances have been made to ‘mase’ and ‘lase’—that is, to behave like masers or lasers. 1966Smith & Sorokin Laser vii. 369 At this point the stage was nearly set for the actual achievement of an injection maser. The main remaining question was: in what sort of a structure could masing action be achieved? 1973Nature 21/28 Dec. 468/1 Since none of the CH lines have so far been seen in absorption, irrespective of the nature of the source where they have been found, one is led to believe that all transitions are masing weakly.
▪ III. mase
obs. form of mace, maze, mease, mess. |