(a) Mus. An instrument with a large pear-shaped body and slender neck, with four or more strings, played by plucking; a lute; (b) a hump like the body of a lute.
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(a) A mattress or pad for a bed; also, bedcover, quilt; (b) materas makere, a mattress maker; standard materas, materas standard, ?a mattress on permanent frame, a stationary mattress [cp. stonding……
(a) The sail set amidships in a fore-and-aft direction; mesan seil; (b) mesan mast, the third and aftermost mast of a ship; mesan yerde, the yard, consisting probably of two pieces lashed together, on……
Astron. An imaginary point in the celestial sphere diametrically opposite to some other point, esp. to the zenith of the sun; also, a representation of such a point on an astrolabe.
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