Ague

[A·gue]

Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

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An acute fever.

Noun
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Noun
a fit of shivering

Noun
successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

n.
An acute fever.

n.
An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

n.
The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

n.
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

v. t.
To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

Ague

A"gue , n. [OE. agu, ague, OF. agu, F. aigu, sharp, OF. fem. ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. acutus sharp. See Acute.] 1. An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." P. Plowman. 2. (Med.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. 3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague. 4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

Ague

A"gue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agued .] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Heywood.

An acute fever.

To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

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