Mease

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.NounA measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.

"a mease of herrings"

2.NounA mess, a mese: a meal.

3.NounA dwelling or messuage.

4.NounObsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).

5.VerbTo catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.

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