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Adjective: mesne  meen
  1. 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

Sounds like: mean, mien

Encyclopedia: Mesne