Definition of master

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Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..

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Decertation :: Decertation (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.
Conflict :: Conflict (v.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
Burghmaster :: Burghmaster (n.) A burgomaster.
Paterfamilias :: Paterfamilias (n.) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master..
Servant :: Servant (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper..
Schoolmaster :: Schoolmaster (n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Captain :: Captain (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
Dominicide :: Dominicide (n.) The act of killing a master.
Relation :: Relation (n.) The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant..
Facile :: Facile (a.) Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
Virile :: Virile (a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs..
Shebander :: Shebander (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies..
Purser :: Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster..
Master :: Master (v. i.) To be skillful; to excel.
Tyrannical :: Tyrannical (a.) Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government..
Baggage Master :: Baggage master () One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
Mate :: Mate (n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate..
Service :: Service (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love..
Weighbeam :: Weighbeam (n.) A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.
Mastered :: Mastered (imp. & p. p.) of Maste.
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