measle
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So it befell many years agone there fell upon her a malady; and when she had lain a great while she fell unto a measle, and of no leech she could have no remedy.
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- A spot or an excrescence on a tree. See measles, 3. A meazell or blister growing on trees. Florio.
- An individual Cysticercus cellulosæ, the larval or scoleciform stage of the pork-tapeworm, Tænia solium, producing the disease called measles in swine (but not human measles); hence, any similar larva.
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So it befell many years agone there fell upon her a malady; and when she had lain a great while she fell unto a measle, and of no leech she could have no remedy.
— Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) -
Why, they didn't have even a single measle--not one whooping cough out of the lot.
— A Fool There Was -
Why, they didn't have even a single measle -- not one whooping cough out of the lot.
— A Fool There Was - "He says it was Masern; I think that would be what we call the measle. — Drums of Autumn
- I gave him the measle. — A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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- Also meazel; the rare singular of measles, q. v.