单词 | measle |
释义 | † measleadj. Obsolete. Of a pig or pork: infected with measles (cysticercosis; see measles n. 2). Cf. measled adj. 1a, measly adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of pigs > [adjective] measledc1350 measlea1398 sussemy1421 measly1598 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [adjective] > affected with measles measledc1350 measlea1398 measly1598 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 100 Mete þat is sone corrupt, as of mesel swynes fleische. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 16 (MED) Yit teynd thou not thi mesel swyne? 1519 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 33 For sellyng messell pork xxd. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xxviii. 195 Masyl baken, and sardyns, I do eate and sel. 1585 J. Kitchin Court Leete, et Baron 249/2 Nota le use our measel porkes sond vend at [perh. read ai] Romeford. 1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 342 Where Measel Pork are sold at Rumford. a1652 R. Brome City Wit v. sig. F6, in Five New Playes (1653) The kell of a meazell hog. 1702 W. Bohun Privilegia Londini 64 No Butcher shall sell any Measel Hog, or unwholsom Flesh, upon pain of six shillings eight pence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). measlev. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > infect with eruptive disease [verb (transitive)] > infect with measles measle1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pied d'oison Goose-foot, wild Orache; called also Swinesbane, because it kills, or meazels, the Swine which eat of it. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 163 Though the wishes that Witches utter Can..Send styes in the eye—and measle the pigs. 1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold II. xxvi. 76 Here our ears are exempt from the infliction of a language which is actually measled with vileness and vulgarity. 1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Measle, to infect with measles. b. intransitive. colloquial and U.S. regional. To develop the rash of measles; to develop cysticercosis. rare. ΚΠ 1906 N.E.D. (at cited word) The child is measling nicely. The baby measled at the same time (Dr. W. Sykes). 1917 Dial. Notes 4 414 The old cow measled, and she died last spring. 2. transitive. To cover with spots or blotches. Cf. measled adj. 1b.Quot. 1678 suggests a reference to mesel n. 1a (‘a leper’). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt in spots, etc. [verb (transitive)] > cover with eruptions measle1638 pock1841 1638 Earl of Strafford Let. 23 May (1739) II. 173 I was so damnably bitten with Midges, as my Face is all mezled over ever since. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 19 With Cowitch meazle like a Leper. 1885 Libr. Mag. (N.Y.) Sept. 219 A tall, sallow fellow, measled all over with brass buttons. 1929 M. Mulcaghey Ballymulcaghey 131 She was sittin' on a stool measlin' her shins at the greeshogue. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 182/2 You'll measle your shins sittin' owre the fire. 1990 P. Melville Shape-shifter (1991) 84 Sometimes she just sat all afternoon and watched the rain measling the window panes. 1996 Presbyterian Rec. Feb. 14/1 Those yet living who remember ink copiers, and the hours spent cutting the doily-like stencils measled with spots of red correcting fluid. 3. intransitive. figurative. To be full of or teem with (objectionable things). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with > with objectionable things skreed1825 measle1856 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xxv. 245 All this..in thieves' cant, with an oath or a nasty expression at every third word. The sentences measled with them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1398v.1611 |
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