MESSUAGIUM, in Law, a dwelling-house, with some land adjoining assigned for its use. By the name of messuage may a garden, shop, mill, cottage, chamber, cellar, or the like, pass.—In Scotland, messuage denotes what is called in England the manor-house, viz. the principal dwelling-house within any barony.

MESOPORPHYRON, a name given by the Greeks to the Roman laticeave; because that garment, being edged on each side, where it opened before, with purple, appeared when clofed with two purple stripes down the middle. The fame term was also applied to the angusticlavae.