ague
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- a fit of shivering or shaking
- successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malariaSynonyms: chills and fever
- a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciationSynonyms: acute accentacute
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Ague \A"gue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agued.] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. --Heywood. [1913 Webster]
ague \a"gue\ ([=a]"g[-u]), n. [OE. agu, ague, OF. agu, F. aigu, sharp, OF. fem. ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. acutus sharp. See Acute.]
1.An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." --P. Plowman. [1913 Webster]
2.(Med.) A fever characterized by paroxysms of high fever and shaking chills. [1913 Webster + AS]
3.The cold fit or rigor of malaria or any other intermittent fever; as, fever and ague. [1913 Webster + AS]
4.A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. --Dryden. AS [1913 Webster]
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. --Shak.
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. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]