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▪ I. ‖ massé, a. and n. Billiards.|ˈmæseɪ, mase|
Also masse.
[Fr., pa. pple. of masser to make a stroke of this kind, f. masse mace n.]
Applied to a stroke made with the cue held perpendicular.
1873Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 351 The hazard may be made by a masse stroke. 1897Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 2/3 The technicalities of nursery cannons, masse cannons, and winning and losing hazards. 1901Q. Rev. Apr. 484 [He] played the massé well for an Englishman.
▪ II. massé, v. rare.|ˈmæseɪ|
[ad. F. masser: see massage n.]
trans. To massage.
1887Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 660 In masséing the face of a fat patient, the tissues can only be rolled and stretched under the fingers and palm. 1888D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) 55 We are no longer in those days when four, or six, or eight persons were employed at one time to massé you. [In ed. 1 (1886) the writer uses masser (in roman) as an imperative.] |