Word Meanings - FEVERWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

FEVER
A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
FEVERFEW
A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
FEVERISH
1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
FEVERET
A slight fever. Ayliffe.
FEVEROUS
1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
FEVERY
Feverish. B. Jonson.
FEVERWORT
See FEVER
FEVEROUSLY
Feverishly. Donne.
SHODDY FEVER
A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
BUCK FEVER
Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
ENFEVER
To excite fever in. A. Seward.
CHAGRES FEVER
A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.
LAZARET FEVER
Typhus fever.
BREAKBONE FEVER
See DENGUE