ague
- Noun. (obsolete) An acute fever.
- Noun. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
- Noun. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, ''fever and ague.''.
- Noun. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
- Noun. A former name for malaria.
- Verb. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
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