messet

See also: meßet

English

Noun

messet (plural messets)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A dog.

   Synonym: messan

   • 1806, John Bigland, Letters on Natural History:

     From the mixture of these, and other breeds, we have messets, lap-dogs, dancers, waps, mongrels, and an endless number of varieties and compounds for which it is difficult to find a name.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “messet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tesems, seem'st, steems, stemes, temses, tmeses

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

messet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of messen

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.sɛt/

Verb

messet

1. third-person feminine singular perfect of mess

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• messa

Verb

messet

1. inflection of messe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Swedish

Noun

messet

1. definite singular of mess