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Webster 1913 Edition
Mesprise
1.
Contempt; scorn.
[Obs.]
2.
[Perh. for F.
méprise
mistake. Cf. Misprision
.] Misadventure; ill-success.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Honey mesquite
. See
– Algaroba
(b)
. Screw-pod mesquite
, a smaller tree (
– Prosopis pubescens
), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. Mesquite grass
, a rich native grass in Western Texas (
Bouteloua oligostachya
, and other species); – so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; – called also muskit grass
, grama grass
.Webster 1828 Edition
Mesprise
MESPRISE
,Noun.