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▪ I. mese, n.1 Obs. exc. s.w. dial.|miːz|
Also 7–9 meese, 9 meesh, mews, etc.
[OE. méos = Flem. mies (cited Kilian as obsolete), OHG, mios (MHG., mod.G. dial. mies), ON. mýr-r (see mire n.):—OTeut. types *ˈmeuso-z, *meuˈzo-z, related by ablaut to *moson-, ON. mose moss n.]
Moss.
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. ii. §2 Þa brohte him sumne dæl ealdes meoses, þe on þam halᵹan treo aweaxen wæs. 13..Sir Orfeo 246 (Zielke 1880) 98 Þis king mote make his bed in mese. 14..Treat. Gardening in Archæologia LIV. i. 161 Upon the clay thu schalt mese layne. c1639Berkeley MS. in Glouc. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Meese, meesy, i.e. mosse, mossy. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Mews (múe·z), moss. 1886Dorset Gloss., Meesh, moss. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Mesh (e long), moss or lichen on an old apple-tree.
▪ II. † mese, n.2 Obs.
Forms: 4–7 mees, 5–6 mes, 5–7 messe, mese, 5–8 mease, meese, 6 meas, meis(s)e, myse, 7–8 mise.
[a OF, mes masc., mese fem.:—late L. mansum (-us), mansa: see manse.]
= messuage.
[1321–2Rolls of Parlt. I. 405/1 Un mees de iiijxx acres de terre.] 1402Hoccleve Let. Cupid 334 Ne men bereve hir landes ne hir Mees. 1467Godstow Reg. 347 A dwellyng place (or a mese) with a plough-lond. 1527in Visit. Southwell (Camden) 132 My capitall meas in Ragenhill. 1546Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) I. 150, j myse buylded lying in Wodhouse. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 194 The eldest can demand no more than her sisters; but the chiefe mease by reason of her auncienty. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. vi. iii. 634/1 In the Palace yard were anciently pales within which were two Messes, the one called Paradise and the other called the Constabulary. 1729MS. Indenture estate at Crich, co. Derby, A messuage..closes thereto belonging, called the meese, furlongs [etc.].
fig.1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 239 Thou [Aries]..Doest hold the First house of Heav'n's spacious Meese [Fr. possedant du Ciel la premiere maison].
▪ III. ‖ mese, n.3|ˈmɛsiː|
[Gr. µέση (sc. χορδή string), fem. of µέσος middle.]
In ancient Greek music, the middle string of the seven-stringed lyre, and its note; subsequently, the key-note of any of the scales in use.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 796 The three termes or bounds which make the intervals in an octave or eight, of musicke harmonicall, to wit, Nete, Mese, and Hypate, that is to say, the Treble, the Meane, and the Base. Ibid. 1252 Thus may a man soone perceive..who plaieth upon a pipe after the old maner: For by his good will, the Hemitone in the Mese, will be incompounded. 1760Phil. Trans. LI. 700 The antients agree in their accounts of the relative pitch of the meses. 1905Athenæum 22 July 122/3 The direct descendant of the mese in the old Greek music.
▪ IV. mese, v. Sc. and north. dial.|miːz|
Forms: 4–5 mes, 4–9 mease, 5 meese, 5, 9 mees, (6 maiss, meiss, meys, miess, mise), 6–7 meis(e, 4– mese.
[Aphetic f. amese v.]
1. trans. To mitigate, assuage, appease, calm (a person's anger, sorrow, etc.); to settle (disputes).
13..E. E. Allit. P. B. 764 Wylt þou mese þy mode & menddyng abyde? c1440York Myst. xliii. 238 Nowe might þer Jewes þare malise meese. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1051 Þe childe with mylde wordes he meesyd. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 21 To mes all thir debatis, it was ordanyt that Rome suld be..soverane kirk. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 104 The nobillis..With fair wordis misit the multitude. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 60 Sum luvis dance vp and doun, To meiss thair malancoly. 1629Sir W. Mure True Crucifixe 596 Yet did not mease the causeless spight. 1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 138 He should be sindle angry, that has few to mease him. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 107 If you be angry, sit laigh and mease you.
2. To calm (wind, tempest, etc.), quench (fire).
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (St. Andreas) 62 Swyth þe gret fyre can he mes. 1513Douglas æneis iii. ii. 2 The blastis mesit, and the fluidis stabill. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xxiii. (S.T.S.) 227 Þe noyes..was sum parte mesit.
▪ V. mese
see mass n.1, mease, mess.
▪ VI. mese
var. meze. |