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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ague \A"gue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Agued}.] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit --Heywood. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ague \A"gue\, n. [OE. agu, ague, OF agu, F. aigu sharp, OF fem. ague, LL (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr L. acutus sharp. See {Acute}.] 1. An acute fever. [Obs.] ``Brenning agues.'' --P. Plowman. 2. (Med.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. 3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as fever and ague. 4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. --Dryden. {Ague cake}, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. {Ague drop}, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. {Ague fit}, a fit of the ague. --Shak. {Ague spell}, a spell or charm against ague. --Gay. {Ague tree}, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ague n 1: a fit of shivering 2: successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria [syn: {chills and fever}] 3: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: {acute accent}, {acute}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Ague the translation in Lev. 26:16 (R.V., "fever") of the Hebrew word kaddah'ath, meaning "kindling", i.e., an inflammatory or burning fever. In Deut. 28:22 the word is rendered "fever."
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