hempen fever

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• Hempen

  ·adj Like hemp. II. Hempen ·adj Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fever

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

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• Fever

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

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hempen widow

  One whose husband was hanged. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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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• barrel fever

  He died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• 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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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.

• bilge-fever

  The illness occasioned by a foul hold. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• yellow fever

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

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