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Measle vs Mease - What's the difference?

measle | mease |

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.

measle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A leper.
  • A tapeworm larva.
  • Derived terms

    * measled * measling

    See also

    * measles

    mease

    English

    Etymology 1

    The English Dialect Dictionary'' suggests (etyl) and indeed (m) itself.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long]] or [[short hundred, short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
  • a mease of herrings
  • * 1894 , [British] Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908 , volume 24, page 70:
  • 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.
  • * 1895 November 23, Western Morning News :
  • 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 .
  • * 1905 , Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland , page xviii:
  • 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)
  • (lb) A mess, a mese: a meal.
  • * 1590 , Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England :
  • I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.
  • * 1779 , Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa: Or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces :
  • 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)
  • (lb) A dwelling or messuage.
  • * 1805 , An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk :
  • 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 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:
  • 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

    References

    * * The English Dialect Dictionary (Joseph Wright) * The Open Court'' (1911), volume 25, page 416: The ''Glasgow Herald of Sept. 13, 1886, says: A mease [of herring] ... is five hundreds of 120 each. ----