mess traps (me straps)

pl. The articles which compose a me -gear. me uage (mes'waj), n. [ME. mesuage, I give unto my said son John all that me uage wherein I now dwell. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 437. (b) A dwelling-house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, including garden and orchard, appropriated to the use of the household; a manor-house and its appendages. There were then greater number of mesuages and mansions almost in euery place. Harrison, Descrip. of Eng., xxii. They wedded her to sixty you sand pounds, To lands in Kent, and me uages in York. Tennyson, Edwin Morris. me y (mes'i), a. [ The floor of the room [s]... in which me y work has to be done is of asphalt. Science, III. 351.