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Lag
·vt To transport for crime. II. Lag ·noun One transported for a crime. III. Lag ·noun ·see <<Grayl...

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lag
A man transported. The cove was lagged for a drag. The man was transported for stealing something ou...

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lag
to stay behind. ...

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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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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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star lag
Breaking shop-windows, and stealing some article thereout. ...

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lag-wood
The larger sticks from the head of an oak-tree when felled. ...

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

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

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

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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.). ...

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

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

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

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bilge-fever
The illness occasioned by a foul hold. ...

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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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