Definitions
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- noun a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
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Examples
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There is a weight called _pahaw_, which is four masse, and 16 _masse_ are one _taile_.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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A well-armed militia dying en masse from the standoff is, in my view, is a tragedy.
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Human behavior en masse is subject to the same mathematical analyses that govern other non-linear systems.
Question?... 2009
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It is just 12 years old, and most of its members were never formally inducted — they were inherited en masse from a smaller, predecessor Hall of Fame at Pinehurst, N.C., dating from 1974.
Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame? John Paul Newport 2010
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Human behavior en masse is subject to the same mathematical analyses that govern other non-linear systems.
Question?... 2009
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I for one love YA and think that if kids reading Harry Potter en-masse is your biggest problem, you really do not have problems.
February 2008 2008
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I for one love YA and think that if kids reading Harry Potter en-masse is your biggest problem, you really do not have problems.
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I think the reason that you aren't seeing renegotiations en masse is that so many of these mortgages were so insanely stupid.
Foreclosures xtra 2008
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I think the reason that you aren't seeing renegotiations en masse is that so many of these mortgages were so insanely stupid.
Archive 2008-03-01 xtra 2008
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When immigrants began arriving en masse from the Soviet Union, they often found themselves living side by side with lower-middle-class Israeli Arabs.
"Israel Is Our Home" 2007
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