messan

Yes, I met him sneaking through the lanes and bye passages with a common minstrel wench, with her messan and her viol on his one arm and her buxom self hanging upon the other.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Ralph has a bloody coxcomb, by a blow from a messan-page whom nobody knew — Dick Seyton of Windygowl is run through the arm, and two gallants of the Leslies have suffered phlebotomy.

The Abbot 2008

You would not consent to put forth your father’s poor dog, and would you use me waur than a messan?

Chapter XV 1917

It was not, indeed, expected at that time, that Highlanders would attack cavalry in an open plain, though late events have shown that they may do so with success. supper a messan-dog --- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o 'a human thrapple; --- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.

Rob Roy 1887

I spoke to my master, and said that we must strive to buy her a new ape, or a little messan dog, to be her playfellow.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

He gave a charge on his lands to a goldsmith at York to pay for my up-bringing, and I verily believe thought no more of me than if I had been a messan dog.

The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Petronelle, who takes such care of me that she dogs my footsteps like a messan. '

Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Tower, and St. Peter's in the Fetters to pray in, which was what he heeded most; also he had a messan dog, and a tame bird.

The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Mother Dolly, though she persisted that snow was nothing to her, and it was a fine jest to be out of the reach of the Sisters, who mewed her up in a cell, like a messan dog.

The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

You would not consent to put forth your father's poor dog, and would you use me waur than a messan?

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801