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Definition of Massed

1. mass [v] - See also: mass

Literary usage of Massed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"300 feet sea margin, beginning at foot of Fox Hill, with 75 feet average depth, massed 22500 300 feet from thence to first point, with 30 feet average depth ..."

2. The New Industrial Unrest: Reasons and Remedies by Ray Stannard Baker (1920)
"... if we are really to understand what is going on, to inquire what are the massed forces behind the present industrial struggle. For the steel strike, ..."

3. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Armies massed at Washington and Richmond.—Threats Against the Federal Capital.—Irritation and Impatience of the North.—" On to Richmond ! ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"Vet how often do we find this "star salesman" being shamefully neglected? How often is the show window used A massed DISPLAY BROUGHT BRISK RESULTS ..."

5. Basket Ball by Edwin J. Mather, Elmer Dayton Mitchell (1922)
"The biggest objection to the five-men massed defense, however, ... On the whole, though, the number of teams using the five-men massed defense is a tribute ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"She only received the first degree. being a "serious* institution, and it was thoroughly defeated when it massed all its forces to oppose the election of ..."

7. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Behind thie timber, on the river bank, the enemy massed his columns, for the movements of the next day. While General Sheridan was in this position. ..."

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