Messier

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

noun

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The Glock family feud gets Messier with new court documents alleging that gun magnate Gaston had a detective follow his ex-wife.
Glock Founder Puts Bullseye on Ex-Wife | Brandy Zadrozny | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Ours is a bit Messier, but every bit as authentic as far as period recreations.
Viggo Mortensen Talks ‘The Two Faces of January,’ Blasts Fox News and Israel’s ‘State Terrorism’ | Marlow Stern | September 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
As the situation gets even Messier, and before more meat is thrown, a switcheroo—just as in the best pop charts.
Casey Kasem's Family's Top 40 Meltdown Moments | Tim Teeman | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
If you didn't refrigerate overnight, it's not so hard, but a little Messier.
Your Friday Gadget Chef Recipe: Two Day Soup | Megan McArdle | November 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
If they hadn't been on the ground, the whole affair could have dragged out and gotten much Messier.
Iranian Riots at British Embassy Portend Troubling Isolationism | Babak Dehghanpisheh | November 30, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

Number 22 rue Messier was a wretched one-storeyed house that belonged to a country vine-dresser who seldom came to Paris.
Fantmas | Pierre Souvestre
The number our cluster bears on the map is 4424, corresponding with M 22 in Messier's catalogue.
Pleasures of the telescope | Garrett Serviss
About mid-day the eminent French astronomer, Messier, saw a great number of black points crossing the sun.
Meteoric astronomy: | Daniel Kirkwood
One of the most remarkable of these objects is 13 Messier, which Proctor thinks is about equal to a first magnitude star.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 | Various
He put the instrument down and zeroed it on Messier 44, the Beehive star cluster in the constellation Cancer.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet | Harold Leland Goodwin

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