Noun

(en-noun)

The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

* Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

* (w), xxxii. 18

The voice of them that shout for mastery .

* , ix. 25.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .

(label) Contest for superiority.

(Holland)

(label) A masterly operation; a feat.

* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

I will do a maistrie ere I go.

(label) The philosopher's stone.

The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.

* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)

He could attain to a mastery in all languages.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)

What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.

(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

a sense of security

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)

this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)

high disdain from sense of injured merit

(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.

It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (w, L'Estrange)

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.

(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.

You don’t make any sense .

the true sense of words or phrases

* Bible, Neh. viii. 8

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)

I think 'twas in another sense .

(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.

A keen musical sense

(senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.

(senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

(senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.