barrel fever

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• Barrel

  ·noun A <<Jar>>. II. Barrel ·noun The hollow basal part of a feather. III. Barrel ·vt To put or to...

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• Fever

  ·vt To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip. II. Fever ·noun Excessive excitem...

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• Barrel

  A vessel used for keeping flour (1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16). The same word (cad) so rendered is also tra...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Fever

  (Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered ...

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• barrel

  A cylindrical vessel for holding both liquid and dry goods. Also, a commercial measure of 31-1/2 gal...

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• Barrel process

  ·add. ·- A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, ...

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• Breakbone fever

  ·- ·see <<Dengue>>. ...

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• Buck fever

  ·add. ·- Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in h...

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• Chagres fever

  ·add. ·- A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama. ...

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• Lazaret fever

  ·add. ·- Typhus fever. ...

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• Shoddy fever

  ·add. ·- A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoea and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust. ...

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• bay fever

  A term of ridicule applied to convicts, who sham illness, to avoid being sent to Botany Bay. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hempen fever

  A man who was hanged is said to have died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been stabb...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lag fever

  A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to av...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lombard fever

  Sick of the lombard fever; i.e. of the idles. ...

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• fever-bark

  n. another name for Bitter-bark (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• gold-fever

  n. the desire to obtain gold bydigging. The word is more especially applied to the periodbetween 18...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• yellow fever

  sc. the gold-fever. 1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 47: «Evident symptoms of the retu...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fever bush

  (Laurus benzoin.) An aromatic shrub with a flavor resembling Benzoin.--Bigelow's Flora Bostoniensis....

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• barrel-builder

  The old rating for a cooper. ...

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• barrel-bulk

  A measure of capacity for freight in a ship, equal to five cubic feet: so that eight barrel-bulk are...

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• barrel-screw

  A powerful machine, consisting of two large poppets, or male screws, moved by levers in their heads,...

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• barrel screws

  See bed ...

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• bilge-fever

  The illness occasioned by a foul hold. ...

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• budge-barrel

  A small cask with copper and wooden hoops, and one head formed by a leather hose or bag, drawing clo...

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• jack-barrel

  A minnow. ...

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• pump-barrel

  The wooden tube which forms the body of the machine, and wherein the piston moves. ...

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• yellow fever

  A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...

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• lock, stock, and barrel

  The whole. A figurative expression borrowed from sportsmen, and having reference to a gun. Look at ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• barrel of a capstan

  The cylinder between the whelps and the paul rim, constituting the main-piece. ...

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• barrel of a pump

  The wooden tube which forms the body of the engine. ...

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• barrel of small arms

  The tube through which the bullets are discharged. In artillery the term belongs to the construction...

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• barrel of the wheel

  The cylinder round which the tiller-ropes are wound. ...

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• lock, stock, and barrel

  An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole. ...

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