Thesaurus: calenture

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1. n. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
2. v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
3. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.
4. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics;esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, amongsailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the seato be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
5. n. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.