mise

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MISE, noun meze. [Latin mitto.] 1. In law, an issue to be tried at the grand assize. 2. Expense; cost. 3. A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid in the county Palatine of Chester at the change of the owner of the earldoms.
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