Measle vs Mease - What's the difference?
measle | mease |
(UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long]] or [[short hundred, short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
* 1894 , [British] Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908 , volume 24, page 70:
* 1895 November 23, Western Morning News :
* 1905 , Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland , page xviii:
(lb) A mess, a mese: a meal.
* 1590 , Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England :
* 1779 , Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa: Or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces :
(lb) A dwelling or messuage.
* 1805 , An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk :
* William Ranshaw versus John Hayward and Others re Title to Goods and Chattels at Hulme'', reported in the ''Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, time of Henry VIII (1897 ), volume 35, page 134:
As nouns the difference between measle and mease
is that measle is (obsolete) a leper while mease is (uk|dialect|dated) a measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long]] or [[short hundred|short) hundred, used especially when counting herring or mease can be (lb) a mess, a mese: a meal or mease can be (lb) a dwelling or messuage.mease
English
Etymology 1
The English Dialect Dictionary'' suggests (etyl) and indeed (m) itself.Noun
(en noun)- a mease of herrings
- The weekly returns will show a great falling off in the herring fishing which it may be said was a complete failure—and consequently caused a falling off of the revenues of the Harbour. There were only 521 mease of herrings sold at an average price of £1 2s 7¾d., or total £590.
- During the past few days large quantities of herrings have been caught at Clovelly. One fisherman, James Small, brought in about twenty mease' ('''mease''', 600). The prices realised have fallen so low as 5s. per ' mease .
- At Portavogie a few mease of herring were landed in June by some twenty-five boats.
Etymology 2
Variant of (m) / (m).Noun
(en noun)- I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.
- they shal have [...] every mease' of two dishes, one with pottage & boiled meate, the other roste (if it be no fasting day.) And if it be a fish daye, then they shal have two like ' meases of white meate & fish.
Etymology 3
Presumably related to (m).Noun
(en noun)- 1628, July 15'', was a ''Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.
- William Raynshaw, of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, complains that whereas Hamnett Bent was seised in his demesne as of fee of certain meases of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Hulme