John iv. 25.
||Mes`si`dor" (F. ?; E. ?), n. [F., fr. L. messis harvest.] The tenth
||month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22,
||1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.
Mes"sieurs (?; F. ?; 277), n. pl. [F.; pl. of monsieur.] Sirs;
gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of
Mr.
Mes`si*nese" (? or ?), a. Of or pertaining to Messina, or its
inhabitans.
Mess"mate` (?), n. An associate in a mess.
Mes"suage (?; 48), n. [Cf. OF. mesuage, masnage, LL. messuagium,
mansionaticum, fr. L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling,
fr. manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse.] (Law) A
dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the
adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell.
Bouvier.
They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and
messuages in York.
Tennyson.
Mest (?), a. Most. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Mes*tee" (?), n. [See Mestizo.] The offspring of a white person and a
quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [Written also mustee.]
Mes"ter (?), n. [Obs.] See Mister, a trade.
Mes*ti"no (?), n.; pl. Mestinos (&?;). See Mestizo.
Mes*ti"zo (?), n.; pl. Mestizos (#). [Sp. mestizo; akin to OF. mestis,
F. métis; all fr. (assumed) LL. mixtitius, fr. L. mixtus mixed, p. p.
of miscere to mix. See Mix, and cf. Mestee, MÉtif, MÉtis, Mustee.] The
offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European
stock. [Spanish America]
Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed
breeds of sheep.