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A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.

A messenger. [Obs.]

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.

Measurement, especially of coal. De Foe.

tending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.

Of or pertaining to metagenesis.

Metagenetic.

A system of farming on halves. [France & Italy]

The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.

Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.

Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.

Same as Mileage.

engths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc. [Written also milage.] Constructive mileage, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made. Bartlett.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

n of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected;…

sired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.

One who manages ill.