massage, n. 1. rub, rubdown, rubbing, friction, attrition; kneading, handling, stroking, palming, palpation, manipulation, osteopathic alignment; Rolfing, Japanese. Shiatsu, reflexology.
-v. 2. rub, rub down, knead, make supple; handle, stroke, palm, palpate; manipulate, align, Rolf.
massive, adj. 1. bulky, big, large, hulking, huge, hugeous, massy; immense, prodigious, enormous, Archaic. enorm, gigantic, gargantuan; vast, large-scale, mammoth, jumbo, colossal, monumental, monstrous, gigantean; cyclopean, titanic, Brobdingnagian; towering, staggering, mountainous, stupendous, tremendous, Sl. humongous; elephantine, hippopotamic, leviathan, dinosaurian; oversize, kingsize, overlarge; All Inf. whopping, roaring, spanking, walloping; cumbersome, cumbrous, unwieldy, burdensome.
2. obese, fat, corpulent, stout, portly, fleshy; thickset, brawny, burly, Inf. strapping, Inf bouncing.
3. great, imposing, mighty; solid, substantial, considerable; heavy, weighty, ponderous.
mast, n. 1. Nautical, spar, yard, boom, gaff; foremast, mainmast, topmast, mizzen, mizzenmast.
2. pole, flagpole, flagstaff, post, support.
master, n. 1. lord, lord and master, overlord, ruler, tyrant, dictator, despot; king, sovereign, monarch, majesty, crowned head, potentate, dynast; prince, emperor, rajah, maharajah, sultan, czar, Caesar, kaiser, Fr. roi, Latin, rex, sheik, khan, governor, tetrarch; president, Chief Executive, commander in chief, Inf. pres, premier, chief of state, head of state, captain of the ship of state.
2. leader, chief, chieftain, head, headman, captain; superior, commander, commanding officer, senior officer, commandant, general, chief of staff, high chief, (of some tribes of American Indians) sachem; employer, Inf. boss, It. padrone, Fr. patron; Inf. boss-man, Inf. big boss, man-in-charge, chairman, director, administrator; headmaster, schoolmaster, principal, dean; executive, manager, overseer, taskmaster, slave driver, supervisor, superintendent, Inf. super, foreman, Brit, gaffer; Inf. kingpin, Inf. kingfish, Inf. number one, Inf. Mr. Big, Sl. top dog, Sl. head honcho, Sl. big cheese, Fr. grand fromage, Sl. wheel or big wheel, Sl. high man on the totem pole, cock of the walk.
3. owner, possessor, holder, keeper, slaveholder, slave owner; landlord, proprietor, landowner, landholder; feudal lord or superior, liege, lord, Hist. suzerain; seigneur, Japanese Hist, daimyo, signior, signor; squire, Scot. laird, Russian Hist, baoyar, (in medieval Germany) landgrave.
4. nobleman, noble, peer; grand duke, archduke, duke, marquis, Hist, margrave, earl, count, viscoont, baron; grandee, magnifico, don, hidalgo.
5. captain, skipper, commander.
6. patriarch, master or man of the house, Irish Eng. himself; Inf. boss, father, papa, Inf. pa, Inf. dad, daddy, Inf. pop, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. pappy.
7. teacher, guide, leader or spiritual leader, guru, rabbi, Japanese, roshi.
8. the Master Jesus Christ, Jesus, Christ, the Naza-rene, the Galilean; the Redeemer, the Savior, Emmanuel, the Messiah, the Son of God.
9. victor, conqueror, triumpher, champion, winner, hero; conquistador, subjugator, subduer, defeater, vanquisher.
