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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

Mastery; superiority; art. See

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

maistry ‎(countable and uncountable, plural maistries)

(obsolete) Mastery.
A foreman.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
  Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “Well, yes, of a kind. I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”