measles

An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.

Maybe it's the 'measles. They say they're going around the neighborhood.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.

Any disease causing red rashes.

Used as an intensifier.

Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine...

Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.

The Swyne dyed of the Measils.

Porcine measles, thought by classical writers to be leprosy, is actually the result of tapeworm cysts which cause ulcerations of the pig's tongue.

Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.

Their fruit-trees are subject to two diseases, the Meazels... and lowsiness.