Defn: Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.
— Mea"sled*ness, n.
MEASLES
Mea"sles, n. Etym: [From lst Measle.]
Defn: Leprosy; also, a leper. [Obs.]
MEASLES
Mea"sles, n.; pl. in form, but used as singular in senses 1, 2, & 3.
Etym: [D. mazelen; akin to G. masern, pl., and E. mazer, and orig.
meaning, little spots. See Mazer.]
1. (Med.)
Defn: A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola. Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. Am. Cyc.
2. (Veter. Med.)
Defn: A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
3. A disease of trees. [Obs.]
4. pl. (Zoöl.)