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noun
ague  n.  
1.
An acute fever. (Obs.) "Brenning agues."
2.
(Med.) A fever characterized by paroxysms of high fever and shaking chills.
3.
The cold fit or rigor of malaria or any other intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
4.
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
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.
Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague.
Ague tree, the sassafras, sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. (Obs.)



verb
Ague  v. t.  (past & past part. agued)  To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.






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"Ague" Quotes from Famous Books



... comrades trembled at the name alone of Gargousse, let him imagine his terror when he saw himself carried by his master near to this fiend of an ape. 'Pardon, master,' he cried, his teeth chattering as if he had an ague,—'pardon, master! I'll never do it again, I ...
— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

... reported of him that little Mary Frodsham, the daughter of a certain poor gilder and frame-maker, whom Mr. Pen had thought fit to employ, and who had made a number of beautiful frames for his fine prints, coming to Pendennis with a piteous tale that her father was ill with ague, and that there was an execution in their house, Pen in an anguish of remorse rushed away, pawned his grand watch and every single article of jewellery except two old gold sleeve-buttons, which had belonged ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... day; for which reason, the women of easy virtue are often bled, that their lovers may shew their attention, and be bled too.—The French disease is so ignorantly treated, or so little regarded, that it is very general; they consider a gonorrhoea as health to the reins; and except a tertian ague, all disorders are called the calentura, and treated alike, and I fear very injudiciously; for there is not, I am told, in the whole kingdom, any public academy for the instruction of young men, in physic, surgery, or ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 - Volume 1 (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse

... former friends; but the following morning, to his dismay, he was seized with a return of the fever which had attacked him in Greece. His brother had left him to return home by another route, and he thus found himself alone, stricken with a severe illness which "was no longer ague, but a violent fever, scarcely, if at all, intermittent." He at once sent for the doctor, who provided him with a good nurse; but he explains, "My situation may be better imagined than described when I say that the first intelligence which greeted me in my helpless and ...
— The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I. • A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)

... beef, and sleeps out in the open air during the night of the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the months of summer (that is, when the moon is full), will most likely bring on an ague fever. ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various


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