单词 | mese |
释义 | † mesen.1 Obsolete. English regional (south-western) in later use. Moss. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] meseeOE mosslOE fog1494 moss-fog1805 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. i. 156 Þa brohte him sumne dæl ealdes meoses, þe on þam halgan treo aweaxen wæs. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxviii. 42 Ragu & meos fornymð ealle eowres landes wæstmas. c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 248 Þis king mot make his bed in mese. a1425 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Pierpont Morgan) f. 187v Þey ben clepid [read cleþid] in meose [a1398 BL Add. mosse] and in rouȝ heriȝ þing. a1500 (?a1450) Treat. Gardening 42 in Archaeologia (1894) 54 161 (MED) Upon þe clay thu schalt mese layne. c1639 Berkeley MS in Glouc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Meese, meesy, i.e. mosse, mossy. 1886 W. Barnes Gloss. Dorset Dial. Meesh, moss. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Mews (múe·z), moss. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Mesh (e long), moss or lichen on an old apple-tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † mesen.2 Obsolete. A piece of land or (occasionally) the dwelling built on it; = messuage n. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a piece of land > messuage mese1402 messuagec1405 mese-placea1440 mesestead1546 messuage stead1546 1402 T. Hoccleve Lepistre Cupide (Huntington) l. 334 in Minor Poems (1970) ii. 304 Ne men byreue hir landes ne hir mees. a1440 Let. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1940) 55 643 (MED) The whiche mees, for defaute of reparacion, is full ruynus. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 33 Ij hydys of lond..with the mese where they were wonyd to abide. 1527 in Southwell Visit. (1891) 132 My capitall meas in Ragenhill. 1546 Commissioners County of York (1894) I. 150 j myse buylded lying in Wodhouse. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 194 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The eldest can demaund no more then her sisters; but the chiefe mease by reason of her auncienty. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 123 Thou [sc. Aries]..Doo'st hold the First House of Heau'ns spacious Meese [Fr. possedant du Ciel la premiere maison]. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. vi. iii. 55/2 In the Palace Yard were anciently Pales; within which were two Messes, the one called Paradise, and the other called the Constabulary. 1729 MS Indenture Estate at Crich, co. Derby A messuage..closes thereto belonging, called the meese, furlongs [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mesen.3 Music. In ancient Greek music: the highest note of the lower of a pair of tetrachords, identical in some scales with the lowest note of the higher tetrachord (cf. paramese n.). Hence, in the two-octave scale known as the Greater Perfect System: the middle note, which is also the highest note of the second lowest of the four tetrachords. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > ancient Greek scales > notes of tetrachords mese1597 proslambanomenos1597 subprincipal1597 hypate1603 nete1603 paramese1603 paranete1603 parhypate1706 penultima1745 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 198 The lowest string Proslambanomene is called assumed, because it is not accounted for one of any tetrachorde, but was taken in to be a Diapason to the mese or middle string. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 796 The three termes or bounds which make the intervals in an octave or eight, of musicke harmonicall, to wit, Nete, Mese, and Hypate, that is to say, the Treble, the Meane, and the Base. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1252 Thus may a man soone perceive..who plaieth upon a pipe after the old maner: For by his good will, the Hemitone in the Mese, will be incompounded. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 68 From the motion of Saturn..the gravest sound in the diapason concord, is called Hypate;..from the middle which is the Sun's motion, the fourth from each part, mese,..from Mars..paramese [etc.]. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 700 The antients agree in their accounts of the relative pitch of the meses. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 201/2 In the eight stringed lyre..Paramese took its proper place, next to Mese. 1905 Athenæum 22 July 122/3 The direct descendant of the mese in the old Greek music. 1992 M. L. West Anc. Greek Mus. 219 There is reason to think that Mesē commonly served as a tonal centre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mesev. Now Scottish and English regional (northern). 1. transitive. To mitigate, assuage, appease, calm (a person's anger, sorrow, etc.); to settle (a dispute). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] softa1225 stilla1325 coolc1330 accoya1375 appeasec1374 attemperc1386 lullc1386 quieta1398 peasea1400 amesec1400 assuagec1400 mesec1400 soberc1430 modify?a1439 establish1477 establish1477 pacify1484 pacify1515 unbrace?1526 settle1530 steady1530 allay1550 calm1559 compromitc1574 restore1582 recollect1587 serenize1598 smooth1604 compose1607 recompose1611 becalm1613 besoothe1614 unprovokea1616 halcyon1616 unstrain1616 leniate1622 tranquillize1623 unperplexa1631 belull1631 sedate1646 unmaze1647 assopiatea1649 serenate1654 serene1654 tranquillify1683 soothe1697 unalarm1722 reserene1755 quietize1791 peacify1845 quieten1853 conjure1856 peace1864 disfever1880 patise1891 de-tension1961 mellow1974 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 764 Wylt þou mese þy mode and menddyng abyde? a1450 York Plays (1885) 463 (MED) Nowe might þer Jewes þare malise meese. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1051 (MED) Þe childe with mylde wordes he meesyd. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 20 To mes all thir debatis, jt was ordanyt, yat Rome suld be..souerane kirk. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) iv. 60 Sum luvis dance vp and doun, To meiss thair malancoly. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 104 The nobillis..With fair wordis misit the multitude. 1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 596 in Wks. (1898) I. 222 Yet did not mease the causeless spight. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 138 He should be sindle angry, that has few to mease him. 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 107 If you be angry, sit laigh and mease you. 1913 H. P. Cameron tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ ii. ii. 56 Whan a man laighens hissel for his fauts, he than eithlie meases ithers an' sune satisfees thae wha are wrathy at him. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)] aquenchc1000 quenchc1175 sleckc1175 slockena1300 bleschea1325 sleckena1340 sleaka1400 asteyntea1450 stancha1450 mesec1480 slockc1480 extinct1483 redd1487 to put outa1500 out-quencha1522 squench1535 extinguish1551 out1629 smoor1721 douse1842 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > assuage or calm > specific natural elements laya1300 mesec1480 allay1493 c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 62 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 65 Swyth þe gret fyre can he mes. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. ii. 2 The blastis mesit, and the fluidis stabill. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xxiii. 227 Þe noyes..was sum parte mesit. ?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. O4 I saw gret Seis, Quhois michtie force, Neptun dois meis, As Dominator thair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1eOEn.21402n.31597v.c1400 |
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