mesquin, -e, adj., mean, shabby; paltry, poor, pitiful; niggardly, illiberal.
mesquinement (-ki-n-mān), adv., shabbily, meanly.
mesquinerie (-ki-n-rî), n.f., meanness, shabbiness; mean or paltry thing; stinginess, paltriness.
mess, n.f., (—) (milit.) mess, officers’ table.
message, n.m., message; errand.
messag-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., messenger, fore-runner, harbinger; carrier. Les hirondelles sont les —ères du printemps; swallows are the fore-runners or harbingers of spring.
messagerie (mé-sa-jri), n.f., stage-coach office; stage-coach, coach, stage; carriage of goods; goods traffic, goods department. —s liners; steam packets.
messaline, n.f., dissolute woman, strumpet.
messe, n.f., (c.rel.) mass. — haute, grand’— (—-—s); high mass, grand mass. Petite —, — basse; low mass. — des morts, — de requiem; mass for the dead. — de minuit; midnight service. — du Saint Esprit; invocation. Livre des —; prayer-book, church-service. Près du moutier a — le dernier; the nearer the church, the farther from God.
messéance, n.f., unseemliness, unbecomingness.