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Definition of Agues
1. ague [n] - See also: ague
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agues
Literary usage of Agues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"Either to this period, or to the undoubted aguish years 1727-28, belongs a curious
statement as to "burning agues, fevers never before heard of to be ..."
2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1894)
"March (and) April, agues very frequent in Oxon, of severall sorts. April.—Apr.
i, T., paid goodwife Watson the laundress her quarter, 41. ..."
3. Domestic Medicine: Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1790)
"OF INTERMITTING FEVERS, OR agues. INTERMITTING fevers afford the beft oppor- •*•
tunity both of ... agues."
4. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"Fleming, May agues. Lady Evelyn; or. The lord of Royal Rest. (Eagle lib. no.
141.) D. 2<¡2p. pa. lue. 'OU. Street. — The baronet's bride. (Eagle ser.. 110. ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1845)
"This district used to be the constant seat of agues, in consequence of the land
being ... The agues have left it, but their place is taken by Phthisis, ..."
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