messet

messet (plural messets)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A dog, especially one as a pet.

   Synonym: messan

   • 1806, John Bigland, Letters on Natural History:

     From the mixture of these, and other breeds, we have messets, lap-dogs, dancers, waps, mongrels, and an endless number of varieties and compounds for which it is difficult to find a name.

• “messet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Tesems, seem'st, steems, stemes, temses, tmeses

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messet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of messen

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.sɛt/

messet

1. third-person feminine singular perfect of mess

• messa

messet

1. inflection of messe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

messet

1. definite singular of mess