noun. A febrile condition in which there are alternating periods of chills, fever, and sweating. Used chiefly in reference to the fevers associated with malaria.

noun. A chill or fit of shivering.

To cause a shivering in; strike with a cold fit.

noun. An acute or violent fever.

noun. Intermittent fever; a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, each in well-developed forms, consisting of three stages marked by successive fits, cold or shivering (the chill), hot or burning, and sweating; chills and fever.

noun. Chilliness; a chill not resulting from disease.

noun. An acute fever.

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

noun. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever.

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

noun. an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague.

noun. a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague.

noun. a fit of the ague.

noun. a spell or charm against ague.

noun. the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague.

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

noun. An acute fever.

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

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

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

noun. Malaria.

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

noun. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

noun. a fit of shivering or shaking

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