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{ Mes*qui"te (m&ebreve;s*kē"t&asl;),
Mes*quit" (m&ebreve;s*kēt") }, n.
[Sp. mezquite; said to be a Mexican Indian word.]
(Bot.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of
North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.

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.

Mess (?), n. Mass; church
service. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mess (?), n. [OE. mes, OF.
mets, LL. missum, p. p. of mittere to put, place
(e. g., on the table), L. mittere to send. See
Mission, and cf.


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