Obs. [a. OFr. amasse, f. amasser: see prec. Cf. mod.Fr. amas.] A gathering, accumulation, collection; a massing of forces.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 120. At Eureux then I made my chiefe amasse, And found I had full seauen hundred speares.
1603. Daniel, Def. Rhime (1717), 20. This great Amass of Eloquence.
1624. Wotton, Archit. (1672), 25. This Pillar is nothing in effect, but a medly, or an amasse of all the precedent Ornaments.
1734. Eames, in Phil. Trans., XXXVIII. 246. An Amass of Heterogeneous Parts diffused in the Æther.
