<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Funny... my mail server thought Linda's message was "JUNK". I think it was because of the word "m-e-s s uages". Must think she is offering services. LOL<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:31 AM, <a href="mailto:LinLouVan@aol.com">LinLouVan@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"> <div> <div>In a message dated 9/27/2009 11:56:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:lechevrier@earthlink.net">lechevrier@earthlink.net</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">Can anyone help with a definiton of the word "mefruages"?<br><br>As in "Manors, <em>Mefruages</em>, Lands, and Tenements"<br></font></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div>Bill,</div> <div>Just as I suspected, the transcriber read the old 's' as an 'f'.</div> <div>Here's the tip pick when I googled "mesruages." And this seems to fit the context.</div> <div>Linda VanOrden</div> <div>Junction City, Oregon</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages&ei=EMjASszeCoHVlAers63dBQ&sa=X&oi=spellmeleon_result&resnum=1&ct=result&usg=AFQjCNEe9dKK7r8adcg96abOZh71mZn4oA"><font size="4"><font color="#2200cc"><strong>messuages</strong> - definition of <strong>messuages</strong> by the Free Online Dictionary <b>...</b></font></font></a> <div class="s">n. 1. (Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. <b>...</b><br><cite><font color="#008000"><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages">www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages</a> - </font></cite><span class="gl"><a onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','clnk','1','')" href="http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:bGIGdwtLg3QJ:www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages+mesruages&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&ie=UTF-8"><font color="#7777cc">Cached</font></a><font color="#7777cc"> - </font><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=related:www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages"><font color="#7777cc">Similar <div> </div> <div> </div></font></a><font color="#7777cc"></font></span></div></div></font></div> _______________________________________________<br>or-roots mailing list<br><a href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a><br>http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>