Ague
['eɪgjuː] or ['egjʊ]
Definition
(noun.) a fit of shivering or shaking.
(noun.) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria.
Inputed by Brenda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An acute fever.
(n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
(n.) The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
(n.) A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
(v. t.) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Typist: Ursula
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Chilliness, cold, chill.[2]. Intermittent fever, fever and ague.
Editor: Meredith
Definition
n. a fever coming in periodical fits accompanied with shivering: chilliness: quaking.—adj. A′gued struck with ague: shivering: cold; A′guish.
Editor: Orville
Unserious Contents or Definition
A sickly condition of the dreamer is sometimes implied by this dream. To dream that you are shaking with an ague, signifies that you will suffer from some physical disorder, and that fluctuating opinions of your own affairs may bring you to the borders of prostration. To see others thus affected, denotes that you will offend people by your supreme indifference to the influences of others.
Edited by Christine
Examples
- His brother's very name is an ague to him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But I have been a-thinking, being over-tired to-night and not well with the ague, of all the many things that'll come in his way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I managed to keep along very well until 1858, when I was attacked by fever and ague. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The illustrations represented in Fig. 177 show the parasites that cause malaria, or fever and ague. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The hottest suns of India never heated his temper; and the Walcheren ague never shook it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He may do that afterwards, said Mrs. Cadwallader--when he has come out on the other side of the mud with an ague. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Willie