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massy
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Definition:massive, heavy
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His parcel gilt to massy gold. You cannot
But raise you friends. Withal, to be of power
To pay an army in the field, to buy
The king of France out of his realms
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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