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7. An area of unified light, shade, or color in a painting.
8. Pharmacology. A thick, pasty mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.
9. masses The body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status. Used with the.
verb
massed, massing, masses
To gather or be gathered into a mass.
adjective
[Middle English masse, from Old French, from Latin massa, from Greek maza.]