M E S 
MESH'OBAD, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MESH'TA, a town of Egypt, on the left bank of the 
Nile : feven miles north of Tahta. 
MESHUL'LAM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MESHUL'LANATH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MESH'Y, adj. Reticulated; of net-work: 
Caught in the mrjhij fnare, in vain they beat 
Their idle wings. Thomfon. 
MESIA'NO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra : fix 
miles north-eaft of Bova.—Another, three miles north of 
Bova. 
MES'ICK, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Meufe : one mile fouth of Stoclcem. 
MESINAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 
zanderan : fifty miles fouth of Aftarabad. 
MESIT'ICUM, /! among the Romans, a toll paid for a 
place to fell goods in the forum. 
MES'KIRCH. See Moeskirch. 
MESKOUTEE'N (Hammam), celebrated baths of 
Algiers, in the province of Conlfantina. The name im¬ 
plies “ the iilent or enchanted baths they are fituated 
on a low ground, furrounded with mountains. There are 
leveral fountains that furnifli the water, which is of ail 
intenfe heat, and falls afterwards into the river Zenati. 
At a fmall diftance from thefe hot fountains are others of 
as intenfe a coldnefs ; and a little below them, fomewhat 
nearer the banks of the Zenati, there are the ruins of 
a few houfes, built for the convenience of fuch perfons 
as come hither for the benefit of the waters : thirty-fix 
miles ealt of Conlfantina, and forty louth-weft of Bona. 
MESLAY', a town of France, in the department of 
Mayenne, and the chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Laval. The place contains 1173, and the canton 
jo, 154, inhabitants, in fourteen communes. 
ME'SLE-SUR-SAR'THE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriit of Alen<;on. The place contains 648, and 
the canton 9364, inhabitants, in twenty communes. 
MES'LIN, J'. [from mefler, French, to mix ; or rather 
corruptly pronounced for mefcellane. See Maslin.] 
Mixed corn: as wheat and rye.—What reafon is there 
which Ihould but induce, and therefore much lefs en¬ 
force, us to think, that care of old difilmilitude between 
the people of God and the heathen nations about them, 
was any more the caufe of forbidding them to put on 
garments of lundry fluff, than of charging them withal 
not to low their fields with mejlin ? Hooker. 
If work for the threlher ye mind for to have, 
Of wheat and of mejtliii unthrelhed go fave. Tujfer. 
MES'LY, a town of France : fix miles fouth-eaft of 
Paris. 
MES'MER, the difcoverer of animal magnetifjn. The 
titles of his two works on that fubjeil, and the hiftory 
of the art, are given under our article Juggling, vol. xi. 
p. 493. We are not acquainted with any particulars of 
his life, nor can they be worth feeking after. He died 
March 5, 1815, at Morlburg, on the lake of Conllance, 
in his 81ft yeaf. 
MES'NA, a city of Africa, capital of Begarmee : 170 
miles fouth of Bornou. Lat. 17. N. Ion. 22. 12. E. 
MESNAGE'R (Nicholas), an able negociator, was 
born at Rouen, in 1658, of a rich commercial family. He 
was fent by Louis XIV. to Spain on fome important mif- 
fions relative to the commerce of the Indies, and after¬ 
wards to Holland ; on which occafions he gave fo much 
fatisfailion as to be created a knight of the order of St. 
Michael, with patents of nobility. In 1711 he figned the 
preliminary treaty of peace between France and England 
at London; and he was next employed with the abbe 
Polignac as plenipotentiary at Utrecht. He died at Paris 
in 1714. His Memoirs have been printed. Moreri. 
MESNAL'ITY, f. [from nufn, or mej'ne.~\ A manor 
held under a fuperior lord. 
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MESNARDIE'RE (Hippolytus Julius Pilet de la), a 
French poet, was born at Loudun in 1610, and died in 
1663. He was a member of the French academy, and pa¬ 
tronized by cardinal Richelieu. His works are, 1. A 
Treatife on Melancholy, 8vo. 2. Poetique, 4to. 3. The 
'I ragedies of Alinde and La Pucelle de Orleans. 4. A 
Collection of Poems, &c. 5. Relations of War, &c, 
Moreri. 
MESNE, adj. [French.] In law, middle, intermediate.— 
He who is lord of a manor, and fo hath tenants holding 
of him, yet himfelf holds of a fuperior lord, is called the 
mefne lord. Cowell. 
MESNE PRO'CESS, fuch procefs as ifiues, pending 
the luit, upon fome collateral interlocutory matter, as to 
fummon juries, witneffes, and the like; diltinguilhed 
from original procejs , which is founded on the writ. 
Finch L. 346. —Mejue Procefs is alfo "fometimes put in 
contradifti nit i on to final procejs, or procefs of execution ; 
and then it fignifies all fuch procefs as intervenes be¬ 
tween the beginning and end of a fuit. 3 Comm. c. 19. 
MESNIE'RE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Orne : four miles louth-weft of Mortagne. 
MESNEV'Y, or MASNAVi,the title of a very celebrated 
work in the Perfian language, the author of which, 
Jelal ud Din, we omitted to infert in the proper place. 
Rumi is often added to his name, denoting that he was 
of Lower Alia. He died in 1162, and was buried in a 
monaftery founded by him in the city of Konyeh (Ico- 
nium) for an order of dervifhes. His work is the moft 
elteemed of that numerous clafs of writings containing 
the doitrines of Sufifm, (fee Sufi,) or emblematical 
theology ; and for feveral centuries his tomb was vifited 
by his devout countrymen, who confider his works as 
the effeil of infpiration, and inferior only to the Koran. 
As well as religion and morality, the Mefnevy comprifes 
alfo hiftory and politics. The following character of 
it is taken from the laft volume of Sir William Jones’s 
Works: “ So extraordinary a book as the Mefnavi was 
never, perhaps, compofed by man. It abounds with 
beauties and blemifhes equally great; with grofs ob- 
feenity, and pure ethics; with exquifite ftrains of poetry, 
and flat puerilities; with wit and pleafantry, mixed with 
dulljefts; with ridicule on all eftablifhed religions, and 
a vein of fublime piety. It is like a wild country in a 
fine climate, overfpread with rich flowers and with the 
ordure of beafts. I know of no writer to whom the Mau- 
lavi can juftly be compared, except Chaucer or Sliake- 
fpeare.” The term Maulavi, here ufed, is ufually applied 
to this great writer, denoting his literary reputation. 
Commentaries on his works, and abridgments, tranfla- 
tions, and imitations, of them, are very numerous in the 
different dialeits of the eaft. 
MES'NOI, an ifland of RufTia, in the ftraits of Vai- 
gatfkoi. Lat. 70. 4. N. Ion. 60. 14. E. 
MESOCHO'ROS, f. [Greek.] The mefochori were mu- 
ficians who prefided anciently in concerts, and, by beat¬ 
ing in a regular manner with their feet, directed the 
meafure of the muiic. For this purpofe in the theatre 
they wore wooden clogs, that they might be better 
heard ; which were called by the Greeks crupezia. 
Mesochorus, among the Romans, was alfo ufed 
for a perfon in public affemblies, appointed to give the 
fignal for acclamation at the proper time, that all might 
join in at once. 
MESOCO'LON, f. in anatomy, that part of the mefen- 
tery, which, having reached the extremity of the ileum, 
contrails and changes its name. See Anatomy. 
MESOCRA'NON, f. in anatomy, the crown of the 
head. 
MESOGAS'TER, f. in anatomy, a name fometimes 
to the leff’er omentum. See Epiploon. 
MESOGLOS'SUM, J'. A mufcle of the lower jaw faf- 
tened to the root of the tongue. 
MESO'LA, or Mezola, a town of Italy, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Po, fituated near the coaft of 
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