ague

1. n. An acute fever. Source: opted

2. n. An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. Source: opted

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

4. n. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Source: opted

5. v. t. To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Source: opted

6. n. a fit of shivering or shaking Source: wordnet

7. n. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria Source: wordnet

8. 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.] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Heywood. Source: webster

9. An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. Source: adambom

10. n:100 n. a fit of shivering or shaking n. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria Source: ecdict

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