Chagres fever

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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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• 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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• 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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• lag fever

  A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to av...

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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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