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meases

meases is the plural of mease.

Meaning of mease

Noun (1)

mease (plural meases)

  1. (UK, dated, dialectal) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
    • a mease of herrings

Noun (2)

mease (plural meases)

  1. (obsolete) A mess, a mese: a meal.
    • I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.1590, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England

Noun (3)

mease (plural meases)

  1. (obsolete) A dwelling or messuage.
    • 1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.1805, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk

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Proper noun capitalized: Meases

Meases

  1. (plural) plural of Mease

Questions about meases

What is meases the plural of?
Meases is the plural of mease.
What part of speech is meases?
Meases is a proper noun.

Words near meases in the dictionary

  1. meas
  2. meas.
  3. MEASA
  4. mease
  5. measels
  6. meases
  7. Measham
  8. Meashams
  9. measily
  10. measle
  11. measled

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