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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
·noun The beech tree.
II. Buck ·noun A male Indian or negro.
III. Buck ·vi To copulate, as bucks a...
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buck
A blind horse; also a gay debauchee.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck
I.
v.
Used «intransitively of a horse, toleap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet togethe...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck
A frame or stand of peculiar construction on which wood is sawn for fuel. In New England it is calle...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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buck
1) of a cart or waggon, the body. Hamp.
2) the breast. Suss.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Breakbone fever
·- ·see <<Dengue>>.
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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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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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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
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Buck bean
·- A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Buck-basket
·noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
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Buck-eyed
·adj Having bad or speckled eyes.
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Water buck
·- A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks o...
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buck bail
Bail given by a sharper for one of the gang.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck fitch
A lecherous old fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck-jumper
See bucker
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck-jumping
Bucking
verbal nouns.
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 43:
«At length it shoo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
1851. `The Australasian Quarterly,' ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck-eye
In the Western States, the people of each are known by certain nicknames. The natives of Ohio are ca...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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haw-buck
A term used by the farmers in driving their oxen; and hence often applied to a rough and unpolished ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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buck, to
To wash a sail.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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buck-weel
A bow-net for fish.
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to run a buck
To poll a bad vote at an election.--IRISH TERM.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hearty as a buck
A hunter's phrase, now in very common use.
Well, how d'ye do, any how?
So, so, middlin'. I'm heart...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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a buck of the first head
One who in debauchery surpasses the rest of his companions, a blood or choice spirit. There are in L...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose