English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æsi

Adjective

1. Heavy; massive.
   • 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

     Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, / Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks / Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist;

   • 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic

     When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro

   • 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics, volume 1, ISBN 0-7803-7922-5, abstract, pages 70-73

     We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.

Noun

1. an attempt to spell dialectal mercy or master
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

     "But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...

• Massy, Essonne, in the Essonne department
• Massy, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire department
• Massy, Seine-Maritime, in the Seine-Maritime department

• Massy, Kyrgyzstan, town in western Kyrgyzstan