measen.

Brit.

/miːs/, U.S.

/mis/, Scottish English

/mis/,

/mes/, Irish English

/miːs/,

/meːs/, Manx English

/mɛːʃ/,

/mɛːz/

Inflections: Plural meases, unchanged.

Forms: Middle English maies, Middle English meis, Middle English meyse, Middle English–1500s mayse, Middle English–1500s meise, Middle English–1700s mese, 1500s maise, 1500s mase, 1500s maze, 1500s–1800s meaze, 1600s mes, 1600s–1700s mesh, 1600s– mease; English regional (chiefly Devon) 1800s– maise, 1800s– maize, 1800s– maze, 1800s– meas, 1800s– mease, 1800s– meise; Scottish pre-1700 maiz, pre-1700 mas, pre-1700 mays, pre-1700 mayse, pre-1700 meas, pre-1700 meass, pre-1700 mese, pre-1700 1700s– mais, pre-1700 1700s– maise, pre-1700 1700s– maze, 1800s– mease, 1900s– mase; Welsh English (Pembrokeshire) 1600s mease, 1600s meise; Manx English 1600s– maze, 1800s– maise, 1800s– mease, 1800s– mesh, 1900s– meash; Irish English 1700s– maze, 1800s– mease.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Or (iii) partly a borrowing from Dutch. Or (iv) partly a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: French mese; Latin misa; Dutch mēse; Middle Low German mēse.

Etymology: Either < Middle French mese (c1268 in Old French), maise (1320 in Old French), mase (1394), chiefly found in Picard sources, or post-classical Latin misa (late 12th cent. in a British source), meisa, mesia (13th cent. in British sources), maisa (mid 14th cent. in a British source), maysa (14th cent. in Scottish sources) all in sense ‘barrel or other container for herrings’; or directly < their etymons, Middle Dutch mēse, meise, miese and Middle Low German mēse, meise basket or container for wares, especially for herrings, cognate with Old High German meisa basket, pannier (Middle High German meise , German regional Meise ), Old Icelandic meiss box, basket (Icelandic meis basket, crate), Faroese meis net basket, Norwegian (Nynorsk) meis wicker basket, especially for hay, Old Swedish mes , mese basket or carrying frame (Swedish regional mes , meis ; compare also mäiso basket for fish), early modern Danish mees basket (Danish mejs rucksack) < a Germanic base, probably cognate with Old Church Slavonic měxŭ pelt, skin bag, bellows, Old Prussian moasis bellows, Lithuanian maišas bag, sack, maišė cord bag for hay, straw, etc., Latvian maiss bag, sack; further etymology uncertain. Compare maise n., maeshie n.The word has been referred to several Indo-European bases, including: the base of Sanskrit meṣa ram, sheep, sheepskin, perhaps with original sense ‘sheepskin bag or sack’; the base of ancient Greek μίτρα headband, turban (see mitre n.¹), perhaps with original sense ‘something woven’; and the base of Gothic maitan to cut (see ant n.¹), perhaps with original sense ‘something cut or carved’. The Manx forms mesh , meash probably reflect the influence of a Manx Gaelic form (compare Irish maois ) borrowed directly from early Scandinavian. The word occurs often in Latin account books of the 13th and 14th cent., but it is unclear whether it is to be interpreted as Latin or English; the first clear attestation in an English context is in a surname (see quot. 1332 at main sense). The unchanged plural following a cardinal number is a common feature of words denoting units of measurement (compare foot n. 6a, pound n.¹).

Now regional (Scottish, English regional (south-western), Manx English, and Irish English).

A measure of herrings (formerly also occasionally of other fish), usually equal to five hundreds (esp. long hundreds; see hundred n. and adj. 3); a container holding this.A mease is typically equivalent to approx. 610 to 620 herrings, but varies from 500 to 630.Recorded earliest in mease-maker.

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1291–2 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 3 (MED) Pro viij meseis iiij d.

1327 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 69 Pro quinque maysis allecum..x s.

1329 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 162 Et pro xiiij^m ix^c lx allecibus..sub precio cuiuslibet mayse quatuor solidorum, cxix s. vij d.]

1332 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 171 Vyncent' Meysemakere.

a1425 in Englische Studien (1895) 21 201–4 (MED) When þou lyes bonden als hering dos in maies, In payne for þi misdedez, wha sal þe raies?

1454 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 50 (MED) Thai payeng to the vse of the Chambre a Meis heryng of euery xxi Meis for hostilage.

1469–70 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 306 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 He shal pay for every meise so solde xii. d.

1535 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 259 x mayses allic. rub. distribut' dictis pauperibus.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Mese, of herring, conteinis fiue hundreth.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 122 Such store of fishe as pleaseth god to send, sometimes x meises, sometimes xij. xvj. or xx meises.

1613 in Lex Scripta Isle of Man (1819) 100 An anncyent Statute in this Isle for paying of Custom Heyrings (called Castle Mazes).

1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 107 [They] take sometimes 60 Mesh at a Tide, which are three Lasts of Herrings.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 190 A boat will catch 6 maze of herrings in a night, each 500.

1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man II. xxi. 297 The fish, when counted out, just numbered one hundred and sixty mease, that is, ninety-two thousand two hundred herrings at one ‘take’.

1874 Notes & Queries 29 Aug. 167/1 Then the fisherman calls out ‘cast’ and throws in another cast, completing the number to 153 fish. This process, repeated four times, gives the number of 612 fish,..and makes up the ‘maze’ or ‘meas’.

1883 S. 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.

1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxviii. 162 I took more fish by many meshes than I could ever consume.

1894 H. Caine Manxman 226 Ten maise of this sort for the last lot.

1905 Whitaker's Almanack, Weights & Meas. Herrings are sold..on the..Isle of Man, and in Ireland, by the Maze, which contains 5 long hundreds of 123 each.

1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland xiii. 293 The fishermen brought in ten mease of herrings.

1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 20 A ‘basket’ of herring is 124 fish—the ‘long hundred’. Five baskets make a ‘mease’.

Compounds

Objective.

† mease-maker n. Obsolete rare

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1332*Meysemakere [see main sense].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mease
释义	measen. Brit. /miːs/, U.S. /mis/, Scottish English /mis/, /mes/, Irish English /miːs/, /meːs/, Manx English /mɛːʃ/, /mɛːz/ Inflections: Plural meases, unchanged. Forms: Middle English maies, Middle English meis, Middle English meyse, Middle English–1500s mayse, Middle English–1500s meise, Middle English–1700s mese, 1500s maise, 1500s mase, 1500s maze, 1500s–1800s meaze, 1600s mes, 1600s–1700s mesh, 1600s– mease; English regional (chiefly Devon) 1800s– maise, 1800s– maize, 1800s– maze, 1800s– meas, 1800s– mease, 1800s– meise; Scottish pre-1700 maiz, pre-1700 mas, pre-1700 mays, pre-1700 mayse, pre-1700 meas, pre-1700 meass, pre-1700 mese, pre-1700 1700s– mais, pre-1700 1700s– maise, pre-1700 1700s– maze, 1800s– mease, 1900s– mase; Welsh English (Pembrokeshire) 1600s mease, 1600s meise; Manx English 1600s– maze, 1800s– maise, 1800s– mease, 1800s– mesh, 1900s– meash; Irish English 1700s– maze, 1800s– mease. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Or (iii) partly a borrowing from Dutch. Or (iv) partly a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: French mese; Latin misa; Dutch mēse; Middle Low German mēse. Etymology: Either < Middle French mese (c1268 in Old French), maise (1320 in Old French), mase (1394), chiefly found in Picard sources, or post-classical Latin misa (late 12th cent. in a British source), meisa, mesia (13th cent. in British sources), maisa (mid 14th cent. in a British source), maysa (14th cent. in Scottish sources) all in sense ‘barrel or other container for herrings’; or directly < their etymons, Middle Dutch mēse, meise, miese and Middle Low German mēse, meise basket or container for wares, especially for herrings, cognate with Old High German meisa basket, pannier (Middle High German meise , German regional Meise ), Old Icelandic meiss box, basket (Icelandic meis basket, crate), Faroese meis net basket, Norwegian (Nynorsk) meis wicker basket, especially for hay, Old Swedish mes , mese basket or carrying frame (Swedish regional mes , meis ; compare also mäiso basket for fish), early modern Danish mees basket (Danish mejs rucksack) < a Germanic base, probably cognate with Old Church Slavonic měxŭ pelt, skin bag, bellows, Old Prussian moasis bellows, Lithuanian maišas bag, sack, maišė cord bag for hay, straw, etc., Latvian maiss bag, sack; further etymology uncertain. Compare maise n., maeshie n.The word has been referred to several Indo-European bases, including: the base of Sanskrit meṣa ram, sheep, sheepskin, perhaps with original sense ‘sheepskin bag or sack’; the base of ancient Greek μίτρα headband, turban (see mitre n.¹), perhaps with original sense ‘something woven’; and the base of Gothic maitan to cut (see ant n.¹), perhaps with original sense ‘something cut or carved’. The Manx forms mesh , meash probably reflect the influence of a Manx Gaelic form (compare Irish maois ) borrowed directly from early Scandinavian. The word occurs often in Latin account books of the 13th and 14th cent., but it is unclear whether it is to be interpreted as Latin or English; the first clear attestation in an English context is in a surname (see quot. 1332 at main sense). The unchanged plural following a cardinal number is a common feature of words denoting units of measurement (compare foot n. 6a, pound n.¹). Now regional (Scottish, English regional (south-western), Manx English, and Irish English). A measure of herrings (formerly also occasionally of other fish), usually equal to five hundreds (esp. long hundreds; see hundred n. and adj. 3); a container holding this.A mease is typically equivalent to approx. 610 to 620 herrings, but varies from 500 to 630.Recorded earliest in mease-maker. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > quantity of fish stickOE mease1332 warp1436 bind1477 wisp1521 cast1587 strikea1690 turna1690 cran1797 toss1851 swill1894 1291–2 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 3 (MED) Pro viij meseis iiij d. 1327 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 69 Pro quinque maysis allecum..x s. 1329 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 162 Et pro xiiij^m ix^c lx allecibus..sub precio cuiuslibet mayse quatuor solidorum, cxix s. vij d.] 1332 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 171 Vyncent' Meysemakere. a1425 in Englische Studien (1895) 21 201–4 (MED) When þou lyes bonden als hering dos in maies, In payne for þi misdedez, wha sal þe raies? 1454 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 50 (MED) Thai payeng to the vse of the Chambre a Meis heryng of euery xxi Meis for hostilage. 1469–70 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 306 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 He shal pay for every meise so solde xii. d. 1535 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 259 x mayses allic. rub. distribut' dictis pauperibus. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Mese, of herring, conteinis fiue hundreth. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 122 Such store of fishe as pleaseth god to send, sometimes x meises, sometimes xij. xvj. or xx meises. 1613 in Lex Scripta Isle of Man (1819) 100 An anncyent Statute in this Isle for paying of Custom Heyrings (called Castle Mazes). 1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 107 [They] take sometimes 60 Mesh at a Tide, which are three Lasts of Herrings. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 190 A boat will catch 6 maze of herrings in a night, each 500. 1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man II. xxi. 297 The fish, when counted out, just numbered one hundred and sixty mease, that is, ninety-two thousand two hundred herrings at one ‘take’. 1874 Notes & Queries 29 Aug. 167/1 Then the fisherman calls out ‘cast’ and throws in another cast, completing the number to 153 fish. This process, repeated four times, gives the number of 612 fish,..and makes up the ‘maze’ or ‘meas’. 1883 S. 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. 1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxviii. 162 I took more fish by many meshes than I could ever consume. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 226 Ten maise of this sort for the last lot. 1905 Whitaker's Almanack, Weights & Meas. Herrings are sold..on the..Isle of Man, and in Ireland, by the Maze, which contains 5 long hundreds of 123 each. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland xiii. 293 The fishermen brought in ten mease of herrings. 1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 20 A ‘basket’ of herring is 124 fish—the ‘long hundred’. Five baskets make a ‘mease’. Compounds Objective. † mease-maker n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1332*Meysemakere [see main sense]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1332
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