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   Messuage , n. [Cf. OF. mesuage, masnage, LL. messuagium, mansionaticum, fr. L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse.] (Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
   Cowell. Bouvier.
   
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   They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds,
   To lands in Kent, and messuages in York.
   Tennyson.
   
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