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messet dial.|ˈmɛsɪt|
Also 7 misset.
[? Altered from Sc. messan, after dim. ending -et1.]
A lap-dog. Also attrib. (Cf. messan.)
1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Pedler 139 Would you have a true survey of his family..? You shall finde them subsist of three heads: himselfe, his truck, and her misset. 1640― Lanc. Lovers iv. c 3, Hee would..carry her Misset, open her pue [etc.]. 1646J. Hall Poems 10 Suppose dame Julia's Messet thinkes it meet To droop or hold up one of 'ts hinder feet. a1694M. Robinson Autobiog. (1856) 51 A breed of messet spaniels, very little, beautiful, and of rare conceit. 1822T. Bewick Mem. 27 She kept a messet dog. |