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Ease vs Mease - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ease and mease

is that ease is the state of being comfortable or free from stress while mease is (uk|dialect|dated) a measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long]] or [[short hundred|short) hundred, used especially when counting herring or mease can be (lb) a mess, a mese: a meal or mease can be (lb) a dwelling or messuage.

As a verb ease

is to free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.

ease

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being comfortable or free from stress.
    • She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
  • Freedom from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
    • ''His mind was at ease when he received his pension.
  • Freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship.
    • He passed all the exams with ease .
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  • Dexterity or facility.
    • He played the organ with ease .
  • Affluence and freedom from financial problems.
    • After winning the jackpot, she lived a life of luxurious ease .
  • Relaxation, rest and leisure.
    • We took our ease on the patio.
  • (clothing) Additional space to allow movement within a garment.
    • to add ease to a waist measurement

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "ease")

    Synonyms

    * (state of being comfortable or free from stress) comfort, peace * peace of mind * (dexterity or facility) dexterity, facility, skill * free time, leisure, relaxation, rest

    Derived terms

    * chapel of ease * at ease * ease of use

    Related terms

    * easy

    References

    Verb

    (eas)
  • To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
    • He eased his conscience by confessing.
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    • Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.
  • To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
    • ''He loosened his shoe to ease the pain.
  • To give respite to (someone).
    • The provision of extra staff eased their workload.
  • To loosen or slacken the tension on (something).
    • We eased the rope, then lowered the sail.
  • To reduce the difficulty of (something).
    • We had to ease the entry requirements.
  • To move (something) slowly and carefully.
    • He eased the cork from the bottle.
  • To lessen in severity.
    • The pain eased overnight.
  • To proceed with little effort.
    • The car eased onto the motorway.

    Synonyms

    * assuage, salve * alleviate, assuage, lessen, reduce * give someone a break (informal), lay off (informal) * loosen, relax, slacken * simplify * (lessen in severity) lessen, reduce * (proceed with little effort) cruise

    mease

    English

    Etymology 1

    The English Dialect Dictionary'' suggests (etyl) and indeed (m) itself.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long]] or [[short hundred, short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
    • a mease of herrings
  • * 1894 , [British] Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908 , volume 24, page 70:
    • The weekly returns will show a great falling off in the herring fishing which it may be said was a complete failure—and consequently caused a falling off of the revenues of the Harbour. There were only 521 mease of herrings sold at an average price of £1 2s 7¾d., or total £590.
  • * 1895 November 23, Western Morning News :
    • During the past few days large quantities of herrings have been caught at Clovelly. One fisherman, James Small, brought in about twenty mease' ('''mease''', 600). The prices realised have fallen so low as 5s. per ' mease .
  • * 1905 , Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland , page xviii:
    • At Portavogie a few mease of herring were landed in June by some twenty-five boats.

    Etymology 2

    Variant of (m) / (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A mess, a mese: a meal.
  • * 1590 , Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England :
    • I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.
  • * 1779 , Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa: Or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces :
    • they shal have [...] every mease' of two dishes, one with pottage & boiled meate, the other roste (if it be no fasting day.) And if it be a fish daye, then they shal have two like ' meases of white meate & fish.

    Etymology 3

    Presumably related to (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A dwelling or messuage.
  • * 1805 , An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk :
    • 1628, July 15'', was a ''Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.
  • * William Ranshaw versus John Hayward and Others re Title to Goods and Chattels at Hulme'', reported in the ''Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, time of Henry VIII (1897 ), volume 35, page 134:
    • William Raynshaw, of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, complains that whereas Hamnett Bent was seised in his demesne as of fee of certain meases of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Hulme

    References

    * * The English Dialect Dictionary (Joseph Wright) * The Open Court'' (1911), volume 25, page 416: The ''Glasgow Herald of Sept. 13, 1886, says: A mease [of herring] ... is five hundreds of 120 each. ----