Measles
['miːz(ə)lz] or ['mizəlz]
Definition
(noun.) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children.
Editor: Wendell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Leprosy; also, a leper.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
(n.) A disease of trees.
(n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
Editor: Louise
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Rubeola.
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Definition
n.sing. a contagious fever accompanied with eruptions of small red spots upon the skin: a disease of swine and cattle caused by larval tapeworms: a disease of trees the leaves being covered with spots.—adjs. Mea′sled Mea′sly infected with measles: good for nothing miserable.—n. Meas′liness.—German measles a name somewhat loosely used of a disease resembling measles but mostly less prolonged and severe.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you have measles, denotes much worry, and anxious care will interfere with your business affairs. To dream that others have this disease, denotes that you will be troubled over the condition of others.
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- Rokesmith suggested measles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Measles and small-pox also attacked them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With the measles or small-pox it would kill every time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Measles is much more dangerous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He said, from the first, it was a very good sortwhich was our great comfort; but the measles are a dreadful complaint. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Do not you remember what Mr. Perry said, so many years ago, when I had the measles? Jane Austen. Emma.
- He had not neglected Mrs. Larcher's when they had the measles, nor indeed would Mrs. Vincy have wished that he should. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had the measles and the hooping-cough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It seems but yesterday that I had the honour of attending you in the measles. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I hope whenever poor Isabella's little ones have the measles, she will send for Perry. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You were very bad with the measles; that is, you would have been very bad, but for Perry's great attention. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She was a woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject (particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fiery rash. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Measles, likely? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The measles and the small-pox were both amazingly fatal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Rokesmith suggested measles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Measles and small-pox also attacked them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With the measles or small-pox it would kill every time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Measles is much more dangerous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He said, from the first, it was a very good sortwhich was our great comfort; but the measles are a dreadful complaint. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Do not you remember what Mr. Perry said, so many years ago, when I had the measles? Jane Austen. Emma.
- He had not neglected Mrs. Larcher's when they had the measles, nor indeed would Mrs. Vincy have wished that he should. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had the measles and the hooping-cough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It seems but yesterday that I had the honour of attending you in the measles. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I hope whenever poor Isabella's little ones have the measles, she will send for Perry. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You were very bad with the measles; that is, you would have been very bad, but for Perry's great attention. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She was a woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject (particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fiery rash. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Measles, likely? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The measles and the small-pox were both amazingly fatal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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