name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
mease
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CMU ARPABET: M IY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, dialectal
Examples
- a mease of herrings
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noun
Meaning 3
A mess, a mese: a meal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
A dwelling or messuage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 6
To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology
A patronymic from May or a variant of Meece.
The English Dialect Dictionary suggests Old Norse meiss (“wooden box, as would be used for counting fish”) as a source; The Century Dictionary suggests that the term comes via Old French from a Latin word *mesa (“barrel”). One can also compare German Mass (“measure”) and indeed measure itself.
Variant of mess / mese.
Presumably related to messuage.
From mesh?