(art, historical) Any of a group of German printmakers who produced finely detailed miniature prints in the first half of the 16th century.

(UK, historical) At the University of Oxford, one who conducted the first examination (responsions) for the Bachelor of Arts degree.

A drinking game in which one player puts their thumb on the table, or other surface. The last of the other players to put their thumb on it has to drink

(historical) A person employed to find crews for ships, sometimes by illicit practices such as shanghaiing.

plural of master copy

(publishing, printing) The copy that serves as the controlling (master) version among a set of copies (as, for example, the master proof to which edits from the authors' proofs are transferred, or an analogous master manuscript with transferred edits).

plural of master shot

(film) A film recording of an entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all the players in view.

The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.

Synonym of Captain Obvious