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▪ I. † mes Obs.
Also 4–5 messe, 5 measse.
[a. AF. mes (see Skeat Chaucer's Wks. I. 429 and Du Cange Glossarium Gallicum s.v.), app.:—L. missum, neut. pa. pple. of mittĕre to send, put forth.]
Proper distance or range for shooting. to mark (a person) at or with a mes: to strike.
The use in the first quot. is obscure; the word may have been used in a strained sense for ‘a blow’, ‘the force of a blow’. But the reading of the passage seems doubtful.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 215 Dryȝtyn with his dere dom hym drof to þe abyme, In þe mesure of his mode, his mes neuer þe lasse Bot þer he tynt þe tyþe dool of his tour ryche. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1453 To shete, at good mes, to the dere. a1380Pistill Susan 320 (Phillips MS.) An aungil..haþ braundisshid his brond..To marke þi myddil at a messe in more þan in þre. c1440York Myst. xi. 162 Bot þe Jewes þat wonnes in Jessen Sall noȝt be merked with þat messe. [c 1460 Towneley Myst. viii. 175 measse].
▪ II. mes
obs. form of mass n.1, mease, mess. |