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messuage |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Messuage \Mes"suage\ (?; 48), n. [Cf. OF mesuage, masnage, LL messuagium mansionaticum fr L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling, fr manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse.] (Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. --Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: messuage n : a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household
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