Definition of Ague

1. Noun. A fit of shivering or shaking.

Generic synonyms: Illness, Malady, Sickness, Unwellness

2. Noun. Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria.
Exact synonyms: Chills And Fever
Group relationships: Malaria
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: Quartan

3. Noun. A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation.
Exact synonyms: Acute, Acute Accent
Generic synonyms: Accent, Accent Mark

Definition of Ague

1. n. An acute fever.

2. v. t. To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

Definition of Ague

1. a malarial fever [n -S] : AGUELIKE, AGUISH [adj], AGUISHLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Ague

1. 1. An acute fever. "Brenning agues." 2. 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. 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. Gay. Ague tree, the sassafras, sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. Origin: OE. Agu, ague, OF. Agu, F. Aigu, sharp, OF. Fem. Ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. Acutus sharp. See Acute. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ague

agrypnia
agrypnia
agrypnias
agrypnocoma
agrypnotic
agryze
agryzed
agryzes
agryzing
ags
agua
aguacate
aguacates
agua toad
ague (current term)
ague (current term)
agued
aguelike
agues
agueweed
agueweeds
ague grass
ague root
ague weed
aguise
aguised
aguises
aguish
aguishly
aguising

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