Messier

[ mes-ee-ey; French me-syey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

The Glock family feud gets messier with new court documents alleging that gun magnate Gaston had a detective follow his ex-wife.

Ours is a bit messier, but every bit as authentic as far as period recreations.

As the situation gets even messier, and before more meat is thrown, a switcheroo—just as in the best pop charts.

If you didn't refrigerate overnight, it's not so hard, but a little messier.

If they hadn't been on the ground, the whole affair could have dragged out and gotten much messier.

Number 22 rue Messier was a wretched one-storeyed house that belonged to a country vine-dresser who seldom came to Paris.

The number our cluster bears on the map is 4424, corresponding with M 22 in Messier's catalogue.

About mid-day the eminent French astronomer, Messier, saw a great number of black points crossing the sun.

One of the most remarkable of these objects is 13 Messier, which Proctor thinks is about equal to a first magnitude star.

He put the instrument down and zeroed it on Messier 44, the Beehive star cluster in the constellation Cancer.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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