Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Swamp fever   /swɑmp fˈivər/   Listen
Swamp fever

noun
1.
An infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever.  Synonym: leptospirosis.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Swamp fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... of ginger posset which Mrs. Burton has sent over for Mr. Selincourt. She says you must give him a teacupful as soon as he wakes, and you ought to make him swallow it even if he objects, as there is quinine in it, which may ward off swamp fever," the man said, with the air of one ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant

... ran off, we have, of course, been attacked by swamp fever. H. succumbed first, then Annie, Max next, and then I. Luckily, the new Dr. Y. had brought quinine with him, and we took heroic doses. Such fever never burned in my veins before or sapped strength so rapidly, though probably the want of good food was a factor. The two or ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various

... to sleep in his ship at night so jealous his captains were of him. He had a touch of the swamp fever which takes the heart out of a man, and finally he was obliged to show them the three-plied rope of pearls to hold them. To just a few of his captains he showed it, but the Indian boy he had taken to be his servant ...
— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al

... "Swamp fever," he said. "I bring good medicine." He passed quietly out into the woods. When he returned, he carried a bundle of snake-root ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org