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et between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net. A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.

Mashed; brewed. [Obs.] Shak.

Formed with meshes; netted.

To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. Shak. My doubts enmesh me if I try. Lowell.

To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh.

thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.

th made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

ch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.

s escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors. To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray.

The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

the action of gills. Knight. -- Gill net, a flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselves. -- Gill opening, or Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind and below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by which the…

In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels.

inds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

A mesh. [Obs.]

alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. Halliwell.