Bible Dictionaries
Mesne

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mesne'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/mesne.html. 1828.