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▪ I. † ˈmesel, a. and n. Obs.
Forms: 3–6 mesel, -el(l)e, (4 meosel, mesale, meseile, mezel, myssel(e, -ale, musel, mysale), 4, 7 messel(l, 4–6 mesell, mesyl(l, mysel, (6 messille, mesall, 7 mesill, mezill, meazel, 8 meazle).
[a. OF. mesel leprous, leper:—L. misellus wretched, wretch, dim. of miser wretched.]
A. adj. Leprous.
a1300Cursor M. 14446 And o ten men þat war mesell,..he gaf til ilkan þair hele. 1340Ayenb. 202 Naaman þet wes mezel. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4628 Ane horrible seke mesel man. a1550Image Ipocr. iv. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 444 Oh mesell Mendicantes, And mangy Obseruauntes. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 357 Thou measell wretch.
b. Of fish. (So in OF.)
a1400Chalm. Ayr xx. in Sc. Acts (1814) I. 335 Quhen þai opyn fische þai luke nocht quheder þai be mesale fische or wane. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xliii, Utheris..brekis thaimself be thair fall, and growis mesall.
c. Of swine: see measle a.
B. n.
1. A leper.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8963 [She] wess þe meseles [v.rr, mysseles, myseles] vet echone. a1300Cursor M. 8169 Thoru þe..sal þis mesele, Be sauf and sund of al vnhele. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 128 As Comuyn as þe Cart-wei..To Preostes, to Minstrals to Mesels in hegges. c1422Hoccleve Min. Poems xxiv. 469 He eet ther-of..But he ther-thurgh becam a foul mesel. c1550Bale K. Johan (Camden) 82 Both crypple, halte, and blynde, Mad men and mesels.
b. fig. A foul person. (Used in 17th and 18th c. as a term of abuse.)
c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus's Wife 797 Woost thow nat weel thow art a foul mesel? Telle out, let see shryue thee cleene and wel. c1520Wyse chylde & Emp. Adrian (W. de W.) (1860) 14 Those that sellen them [sc. benefices] shall be mesellys in the soule as Jesse [i.e. Giezi, Gehazi]. 1605Lond. Prodigal C 2 b. Chil be abaffeled vp and downe for a messell and a scoundrel. 1606Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 6 An old mezill will haue a misers tricke. 1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 30 What's me-an by that, ya long-hanjed Meazle?
2. Leprosy. Also transf., an affliction.
c1375Cursor M. 11827 (Fairf.) Ouer alle he was with mesel playne [earlier texts was he mesel plain]. c1400Prymer in Maskell Mon. Rit. (1847) II. 104 That thou fouche suaf to..releeue the meselis [L. miserias] of pore men and thrallis. 1470–85Malory Arthur xvii. xl. 705 Whanne she had layne a grete whyle she felle vnto a mesel. 1530Palsgr. 244/2 Mesyll the sickenesse, mesellerie.
3. attrib., as mesel-cote, mesel house.
1402Will of Neve (Somerset Ho.), Les meselcotes in Kent⁓strete. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 136 To meselle houses of þat same lond, Þre þousand mark vnto þer spense he fond.
▪ II. mesel, mesalade
see measle, malasade. |