meazel

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.

meazel

1. Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.

meazel (plural meazels)

1. Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
2. Obsolete form of measle (“a leper”).

• “† mesel, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.