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mes·sage  (msj)
n.
1.
a. A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another.
b. The substance of such a communication; the point or points conveyed: gestured to a waiter, who got the message and brought the bill.
2. A statement made or read before a gathering: a retiring coach's farewell message.
3. A basic thesis or lesson; a moral: a play with a message.
v.tr. mes·saged, mes·sag·ing, mes·sag·es
1. To send a message to.
2. To send as a message: messaged the report by cable.
v.intr.
To send a message; communicate.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin missticum, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere, to send.]

messages
Noun, pl
Scot & NE English dialect household shopping


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That seemed a good idea; so the Historian rigged up a high tower in his back yard, and took lessons in wireless telegraphy until he understood it, and then began to call "Princess Dorothy of Oz" by sending messages into the air.
Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
And I have two messages to deliver, which I hope you will not object to receive.
 
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