mease /miːz/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •(dialect, old-fashioned) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.At Portavogie a few mease of herring were landed in June by some twenty-five boats. — 1905 •(no longer used) A mess, a mese: a meal.I want my mease of milk when I go to my work. — 1590 •(no longer used) A dwelling or messuage.1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved. — 1805 verb1 •To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.( […] and except also fish meased in the sleeves of certain nets, called seynes), of which no tithes are demanded; […] — 1798 formsmeased · measing · meases
