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<hw>Mea"sles</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. in form, but used as <i>singular</i> in senses 1, 2, & 3</plu>. <ety>[D. <ets>mazelen</ets>; akin to G. <ets>masern</ets>, pl., and E. <ets>mazer</ets>, and orig. meaning, little spots. See <er>Mazer</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote><b>Measles</b> commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. <i>Am. Cyc.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Veter. Med.)</fld> <def>A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A disease of trees.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The larv\'91 of any tapeworm (<spn>T\'91nia</spn>) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also <altname>bladder worms</altname>.</def>

<h1>Measly</h1> <Xpage=906>

<hw>Mea"sly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Infected with measles.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.</def>

<h1>Measurable</h1> <Xpage=906>

<hw>Meas"ur*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>mesurable</ets>, L. <ets>mensurabilis</ets>. See <er>Measure</er>, and cf. <er>Mensurable</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Moderate; temperate; not excessive.</def>

<blockquote>Of his diet <b>measurable</b> was he. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Meas"ur*a*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> -- <wf>Meas"ur*a*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>Yet do it <b>measurably</b>, as it becometh Christians. <i>Latimer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Measure</h1> <Xpage=906>

<hw>Meas"ure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>mesure</ets>, F. <ets>mesure</ets>, L. <ets>mensura</ets>, fr. <ets>metiri</ets>, <ets>mensus</ets>, to measure; akin to <ets>metrum</ets> poetical measure, Gr. <?/, E. <ets>meter</ets>. Cf. <er>Immense</er>, <er>Mensuration</er>, <er>Mete</er> to measure.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.</def>

<blockquote>False ells and <b>measures</b> be brought all clean adown. <i>R. of Gloucester.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; <as>as, to take one's <ex>measure</ex> for a coat</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>measure</b> thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. <i>Job xi. 9.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.</def>

<blockquote>It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three <b>measures</b> of meal. <i>Luke xiii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, <i>in measure</i>; <i>with measure</i>; <i>without</i> or <i>beyond measure</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without <b>measure</b>. <i>Is. v. 14.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.</def>