Ague

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An acute fever.

II. Ague ·noun A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

III. Ague ·vt To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

IV. Ague ·noun An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

V. Ague ·noun The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.