Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesail
Literary usage of Mesail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"An obsolete form of the prefix mis-3. mesad (më'sad), adv. [< тея(оп) + -ad3.]
Toward the meson; in a mesal direction. BG Wilder. mesail ..."
2. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"mesail.—That portion of a helmet which closes on the open front, more generally
known in England as the ventail. ..."
3. Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a Descriptive Notice by Paul Lacombe (1907)
"... but having the acutely-peaked visor or mesail lowered and closed." The men-at-arms
still used the old weapons of the earlier knights with some ..."
4. The New Tendencies of Political Economy by Emile de Laveleye, George Walker (1879)
"Certain writers, among whom are M. Du mesail-Marigny, in France, M. Walras, in
Switzerland, and Mr.-Jevons, in England, have endeavored to resolve some of ..."
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