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noun

ague n.

An acute fever. (Obs.) "Brenning agues."

(Med.) A fever characterized by paroxysms of high fever and shaking chills.

The cold fit or rigor of malaria or any other intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

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.

Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague.

Ague tree, the sassafras, sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. (Obs.)

verb

Ague v. t. (past & past part. agued) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

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... notwithstanding I was thus secluded from my particular friends and acquaintances yet I enjoyed my share of comfort and worldly felicity. I felt no disposition to murmer and repine in my then condition. Every day afforded me its enjoyments excepting a time when I had a pretty severe attack with the ague and fever which reduced me low. The whole term of my Captivity was three years and three months lacking one day. I was exchanged on the 3rd day of Jany 1781. I was taken from Flat Bush to New York and from thence conveyed to Elizabethtown in New Jersey ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

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