Word.ws English Dictionary

mesling

mesling is the obsolete form of measling.

Meaning of measling

Noun

measling (countable and uncountable, plural measlings)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of measle: the disease caused by M. morbillivirus, a red spot caused by the disease.
    Synonyms:
    measle
  2. (uncountable) A form of delamination or separation in a laminate material that results in a spotty appearance.

Forms of mesling

pluralmeslings

Questions about mesling

What is mesling the obsolete form of?
Mesling is the obsolete form of measling.

Words near mesling in the dictionary

  1. Meskwakis
  2. Mesler
  3. Meslers
  4. Mesley
  5. meslin
  6. mesling
  7. meslings
  8. meslins
  9. Mesmer
  10. mesmeree
  11. mesmerees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mesling (page history and authors); measling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mesling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mesling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.