Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Measle

Measle , noun

[Old English mesel, Old French mesel, Late Latin misellus, Latin misellus unfortunate, dim. of miser. See Miser.]

A leper. [Obsolete] — Wyclif (Matt. x. 8. )

Measle , noun

(Zoology) A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.