Usually means: Unit of measure for herring.
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  1. mease: Merriam-Webster
  2. mease: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Mease, mease: Wordnik
  4. Mease, mease: Wiktionary
  5. Mease: Dictionary.com
  6. Mease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. mease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Mease: Rhymezone
  9. Mease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. mease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. mease: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Mease: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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  1. mease: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (mease)

noun:  (UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
noun:  (obsolete) A mess, a mese: a meal.
noun:  (obsolete) A dwelling or messuage.
verb:  To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net). [A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.]

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