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Definition of Ague

Ague
Ague A"gue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agued.] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. --Heywood.
Ague
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.]

Meaning of Ague from wikipedia

- Look up ague in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ague may refer to: Fever Malaria Agué, Benin Duck ague, a hunting term Kan Ague, a residential area of...
- aria 'bad air', a part of miasma theory; the disease was formerly called ague or marsh fever due to its ****ociation with swamps and marshland. The term...
- Duck ague, also buck fever or buck ague, is a hunting term for the yips, in which a marksman or hunter, before taking a shot with either a gun or bow in...
- 2015.09.095. Philpotts & Ague 2009, pp. 55–56. Philpotts & Ague 2009, pp. 58–59. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 48. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 72. "ʻaʻā". Hawaiian...
- Agué is a town and arrondis****t in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune...
- ISBN 978-0-04-552022-0. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 23. Philpotts & Ague 2009, pp. 70–77. Schmincke 2003, p. 132. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 20. Bonnichsen, B.;...
- coastal marshes of England, mortality from "marsh fever" or "tertian ague" (ague: via French from medieval Latin acuta (febris), acute fever) was comparable...
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- Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms...
- doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2013.06.006. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 377. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 16. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 24. Schmincke 2003, pp. 131–132....