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- English Word Mesotype Definition An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
- English Word Mesovarium Definition The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
- English Word Mesoxalate Definition A salt of mesoxalic acid.
- English Word Mesoxalic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
- English Word Mesozoa Definition A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
- English Word Mesozoic Definition Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
- English Word Mesozoic Definition The Mesozoic age or formation.
- English Word Mesprise Definition Contempt; scorn.
- English Word Mesprise Definition Misadventure; ill-success.
- English Word Mesquit Definition A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
- English Word Mesquite Definition Alt. of Mesquit
- English Word Mess Definition Mass; church service.
- English Word Mess Definition A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
- English Word Mess Definition A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
- English Word Mess Definition A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
- English Word Mess Definition The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- English Word Mess Definition A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
- English Word Mess Definition To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
- English Word Mess Definition To supply with a mess.
- English Word Message Definition Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.