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Fever
·vt To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.
II. Fever ·noun Excessive excitem...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Chagres fever
·add. ·- A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lazaret fever
·add. ·- Typhus fever.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shoddy fever
·add. ·- A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoea and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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barrel fever
He died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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lombard fever
Sick of the lombard fever; i.e. of the idles.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fever-bark
n.
another name for Bitter-bark (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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
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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
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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.
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bilge-fever
The illness occasioned by a foul hold.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow fever
A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...
The Sailor's Word-Book