Definitions for mesne

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Spelling: [meen]
IPA: /min/

Mesne is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in mesne (eemns).

Definitions for mesne

adjective

  1. intermediate or intervening.

Origin of mesne

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, spelling variant of meen mean3

Examples for mesne

The mesne profits you have received and appropriated since Squire Trevlyn's death.

The resident lord of a manor was often the mesne tenant of one of these greater lords.

Vavassors, that is, mesne tenants, are particularly mentioned in one enumeration of barons attending the court.

The trouble arose where he could not summon the mesne grantor, and the new right was given him for that case alone.

No alliance was actually formed between the king and the mesne nobility against the immediate baronage.

And it's not only what Mr. Aubrey will lose, but what he will be liable to—the mesne profits—sixty thousand pounds.

And what's he to start with, if there's no mesne profits forthcoming?

It is very painful for me to mention the subject, Mr. Aubrey; but have you adverted to the mesne profits?

Such attachments (on mesne process) can generally be dissolved by the substitution of a bond with surety.

Resigned to accept position of Register of mesne Conveyances, a very important office which he held for several years.

Word Value for mesne
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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