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▪ I. mease|miːz|
Forms: 5–6 mayse, 5, 6, 9 meise, 6–8 mese, 6, 9 maise, 6–9 meaze, 7 maze, mes, 7–9 mesh, maze, 9 mais, maize, mase, meas, meash, 7– mease.
[a. OF. meise, maise barrel (or some other receptacle) for herrings (in 14th c. latinized meisa); of Teut. origin: cf. OHG. meisa bundle, box (MHG. meise barrel for herrings, mod.G. dial. meise basket), MLG., MDu. mêse barrel for herrings, ON. meiss box, basket (MSw. mes, mese, Sw. dial. mes, meis, MDa. mees), ? cogn. w. Lith. máisza-s bag.]
A measure for herrings, equal to five ‘hundreds’ (usually ‘long hundreds’ varying in different localities: see quots.).
In N. Devon the number is 612, i.e. four times 153, app. suggested by John xxi. 11 (see E.D.D.).
1469in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 306 He shal pay for every meise so solde xii.d. 1535in Mem. Fountains Abb. (Surtees) 259, x mayses allic. rub. distribut' dictis pauperibus. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign., Mese, of herring, conteinis fiue hundreth. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 122 Such store of fishe as pleaseth god to send, sometimes x meises, sometimes xij. xvj. or xx meises. 1613in Lex Scripta of Isle of Man (1819) 100 An anncyent Statute in this Isle for paying of Custom Heyrings (called Castle Mazes). c1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 107 [They] take sometimes 60 Mesh at a Tide, which are three Lasts of Herrings. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 190 A boat will catch 6 maze of herrings in a night, each 500. 1883S. Walpole Brit. Fish Trade (Fish. Exhib. Lit. I.) 37 In Ireland and the Isle of Man herrings are measured by the mease, which contains 525 fish. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxxviii, I took more fish by many meshes than I could ever consume. 1894― Manxman 226 Ten maise of this sort for the last lot. 1905Whitaker's Alm., Weights & M., Herrings are sold..on the..Isle of Man, and in Ireland, by the Maze, which contains 5 long hundreds of 123 each.
▪ II. mease
var. mese Obs., mess n. and v. |