messuage (suage as swig), mesuage

[O. Fr. mesuage =a manor-house; cf. Low Latin mesuagium, me uagium =a closely connected with, if not the same word as O. Fr. masage, masaige =a tenement, from Low Lat. masa.ma a a small farm tenement, from mas, mex, metz =a me uage, a with a house, from Lat. mans a, fem. sing. of mans us, pa. par. of maneo =to remain.] Law: A dwelling-house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage appropriated to the use of the household; a manor-house. *meste, a . & adv . [MOST.] měs-teé, mus-teē, s. [MESTIZO.) The child of a white and a quadroon.