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Mesne (?), a. [Cf. Mean
intermediate.] (Law) Middle; intervening; as, a
mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but
grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a
tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the
second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.

Mesne process, intermediate process; process
intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes
understood to be the whole process preceding the execution.
Blackstone. Burrill. -- Mesne
profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has
been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate.
Burrill.

{ Mes"o- (?), Mes- (?) }. [Gr. me`sos
in the middle.] A combining form denoting in the middle,
intermediate; specif. (Chem.), denoting a
type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl
derivatives. Also used adjectively.

||Mes`o*a"ri*um (?), n. [NL., from Gr.


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