Heavy; massive.
Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde, / Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes / Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte, / In euery part exceding braue and rich.
Pronunciation spelling of mercy.
1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss "But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...
Pronunciation spelling of master.
From Middle English massy; equivalent to mass + -y.
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