Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mise"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mise \Mise\, n. [F. mise a putting, setting, expense, fr. mis,
mise, p. p. of mettre to put, lay, fr. LL. mittere to send.]
1. (Law) The issue in a writ of right.
2. Expense; cost; disbursement. [Obs.]
3. A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people
to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in
the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of
the owner of the earldom. [Obs.]
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