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verb

  1. (adverb) to fill or block in (the areas of unified colour, shade, etc) in a painting or drawing

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The Boston Associates built Lowell, Mass., in 1822, creating a distinctly American industrialization.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a conciliatory gesture, he allowed a prominent conservative cardinal, Raymond Burke, to celebrate a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in October.

From The Wall Street Journal

A mass in honour of Franco was held on Thursday at a memorial site outside Madrid formerly called the Valley of the Fallen, seen as a triumphalist monument to the general's side in the civil war.

From Barron's

One of the families mentioned, the Burdicks, was discovered to have moved to Beachville from Lanesborough, Mass., in the Berkshires.

From The Wall Street Journal

The world always seems to tilt a little on its axis in the two weeks a year that top bankers and finance ministers mass in Washington DC for their meetings at the IMF.

From BBC