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- Measles - n. - Leprosy; also, a leper.
- Measles - 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.
- Measles - n. - A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
- Measles - n. - A disease of trees.
- Measles - n. - The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
- Catch - v. t. - To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.