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- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. Chapman. Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton. -- Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy…

A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle. The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural. Walsh.

A Marconi wireless message.

A mess; trouble. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.

tin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission. How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high. Milton.

That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by MM. or Messrs. in the plural.]

To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman.

A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble. [Colloq. U.S.]

To mix in an unitidy and offensive way; to make a mess of. [Prov. Eng.; Colloq. U.S.]

A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.

One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio. [Obs.] Hoole.

A messenger. [Obs.] Shak.

A messenger.

The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. The first principles of the oracles of God. Heb. v. 12.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]