Noun : a mass of dough. ,a mass of sand. ,People, in the mass, mean well. ,a mass of errors; a mass of troops. ,towers of great mass and strength. ,the great mass of American films.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The clouds are massing in the west.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The houses are massed in blocks.    From Dictionary.com. 

Use: The canna lily is a mid-height plant for garden beds, and is best in massed display.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caladium, candleabra cactus and canna lily: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

It shows well in massed plantings, and is also used as a potted plant in large tubs on patios and balconies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

This is the opposite to cramming, which is also called massed practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [LearnHub Activities] Reference

The ramp-up to the 1991 Gulf War included the infamous non-existent satellite photos of Iraqi troops "massed" at the Saudi border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

The clouds parted for these, then massed against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Draft] Reference

DAVIDSON: The crowd shattered his windows and massed outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unlikely Story Of One Poor Haitian Who Got Rich] Reference

In anticipation of this work I massed my troops in close column.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The reserves of the 9th corps should be massed as much as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

She opened herself up to the sky as the clouds massed over her body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Another Rainy Day] Reference

Lee massed heavily from his left flank on the broken point of his line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The players were massed in the tunnel, awaiting their run onto the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Grant, It's About Respect] Reference

The sun, now at high noon, massed the trees 'shadow close around their trunks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The rebels massed in the north-west angle of the Memphis and Charleston and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Garmin-Transitions massed at the front to drive the pack in for the final sprint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Cavendish dashes to easy stage win at the Vuelta a Espana] Reference

Hurlbut was in rear of Prentiss, massed, and in reserve at the time of the onset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Late last week Serb forces massed on the border and shelled the village of Bukosh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balking In The Balkans] Reference

This tactic had worked brilliantly against the massed assaults of Iranian foot soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blitzkrieg] Reference

At least three Guard divisions are massed outside Baghdad, facing the American invaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plan Under Attack] Reference

When the enemy had massed enough to become a target, the United States struck by land and air.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Leave No Man Behind'] Reference

Out of favor now is the faux-manor look of gently rolling lawns and massed banks of perennials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Dreams] Reference

Now and again she stopped to pick and eat whortleberries from the massed bushes beneath the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

They are massed here on roadsides, hillsides, rocks and in cemeteries by the hundreds of thousands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flood Waters Begin To Recede In Parts Of Pakistan] Reference

Corps, hastily disposed of them for defense, and General Kilpatrick massed his cavalry on the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Last Wednesday an estimated 4,000 friends and colleagues massed in Central Park for a Lebow memorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across The Finish Line] Reference

I think how Boston, massed terribly off the bow, looks judgmental after the holiday space of the bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line] Reference

But the reporters who massed around him afterward were more interested in Delaware and what it all means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hungover or not, parties go on: Post-primary, Dems, GOP want to look refreshed] Reference

By reason of the delay in moving Griffin and Crawford, the enemy having escaped, I massed the Fifth Corps at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The different troops, assembled for review, were massed on the parade-ground at Vincennes, facing the tribunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Surely the Framers 'definition of war covers a collision between massed armies involving more than a million people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Again, Ike Was Right] Reference

Thousands of frenzied followers of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid massed outside Parliament in Jakarta last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia: The Next Threat To Peace] Reference

We sense with all our faculties that forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

The strategic site became a target of North Vietnamese forces, which massed beneath Etchberger's position in early March 1968.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to Air Force service member for Laos action] Reference

Baird's front where Bragg's troops had massed against Sherman, the resistance was more stubborn and the contest lasted longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

If Konduz falls, the 10,000 Taliban troops massed around the northeast stronghold of Taloqan would lose their main supply link.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Win In The Fog Of War] Reference

But Saddam has massed tanks and troops on the Kurdish border, surrounding Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on three sides.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Kurds Are Suffering'] Reference

Leniaeff, rode slowly past the front and the flanks of the massed body, the troops facing to the left or the right as he passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference