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Pronunciation : Mea"sles
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [From lst Measle.]
Definition : Defn: Leprosy; also, a leper. [Obs.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Mea"sles, n.; pl. in form, but used as singular in senses 1, 2
Part of Speech : &
Etymology : [D. mazelen; akin to G. masern, pl., and E. mazer, and orig. meaning, little spots. See Mazer.]
Definition : 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. (Zo?l.)

Defn: The larv? of any tapeworm (T?nia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.

3.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913