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noun

ague n.

An acute fever. (Obs.) "Brenning agues."

(Med.) A fever characterized by paroxysms of high fever and shaking chills.

The cold fit or rigor of malaria or any other intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

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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... head to foot as if an ague-fit were on her, and her sobs almost mounted to a scream. No heart that had any pretension to humanity could have helped pitying her. Her husband did pity her; but Arundel was carried away by passion, and Bilson had no heart. Through all this ...

— Mistress Margery • Emily Sarah Holt

... the interpreter that they were bearers of a letter from the Dey, he went back with the intelligence, and presently returned salaaming very low, to introduce them to another of the large halls with lacework ceilings, where it was explained that the Grand Marabout was, who was suffering from ague. The fit was passing off, and he would be able to attend of the coffee and the pipes which were presented to his honoured guests so soon as they ...

— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge

... shaking all over as one with an ague, and her words were hardly articulate. He waited a little for her trembling to pass, but it only increased till her whole body seemed to twitch uncontrollably. At last with the utmost quietness he ...

— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... to have been of this party, but when the time for setting out came all but two failed, under various excuses. One of these was finally obliged to turn back from Mine au Breton with a continued attack of fever and ague. Ardent in the plan, and with a strong desire to extend the dominions of science, he determined to push on with a single companion, and a single pack-horse, which bore the necessary camp conveniences, and was led alternately by each from day to day. A pocket compass ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... day blackens with fresh clouds, Complaints of ague, fever, crumbling huts, Of land thrown out to the forest, game and keepers, Bailiffs and barons, plundering all alike; Need, greed, stupidity: To clear such ruin Would task the rich prime of some noble hero— But can ...

— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley

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