Part 1 — MAST.
Reading edition
Timon. The Oaks bear Mast, the Briers scarlet hips.
Timon of Athens, act iv, sc. 3 (174).
We still call the fruit of beech, beech-masts, but do not apply the name to the acorn. It originally meant food used for fatting, especially for fatting swine. See note in "Promptorium Parvulorum," p. 329, giving several instances of this use, and Strattmann, s.v. Mæst.