| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being aguish, febrile or malarial.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Ague.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb ague.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (ague) | 1. To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: aguing, agued, agues, aguer, aguers, aguingly and aguedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "AGUED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AGUED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Chilly; having a fit of ague; shivering with cold or fear.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of ague. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: ague
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Ague cake | An enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Ague drop | A solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Ague fit | A fit of the ague. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Ague grass | Colicroot having a scurfy or granuliferous perianth and white flowers; southeastern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ague root | Colicroot having a scurfy or granuliferous perianth and white flowers; southeastern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ague spell | A spell or charm against ague. --Gay. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Ague tree | The sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Ague weed | Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Dumb ague | A form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined ``chill.'' [U.S.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Face ague | (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also tic douloureux . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fever and ague | A form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ague
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Covent garden ague | Slang in 1811 | 1: COVENT GARDEN AGUE. The venereal disease. He broke his shins against Covent Garden rails; he caught the venereal disorder. 2: DRURY LANE AGUE. The venereal disorder. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Homer a Cure for the Ague | Literature | 1: The subject of this book is as follows: While Agamemnon adjudges that Menelaos is the winner, and that the Trojans were bound tc yield, according to their compact, Pandaros draws his bow, wounds Menelaos, and the battle becomes general. The reason why this book was selected is because it contains the cure of Menelaos by Machaon, "a son of AEsculapius." 2: Praecepta de Medicina, 50. 3: "Maeoniae Iliados quartum suppone timenti." - 4: It was an old superstition that if the fourth book of the Iliad was laid under the head of a patient suffering from quartan ague it would cure him at once. Serenus Sammonicus, preceptor of Gordian and a noted physician, vouchee for this remedy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Zinc ague | Medicine | Metal fume fever caused by the inhalation of zinc oxide fumes from any of several sources such as welding, galvanising, metallising, etc (1). Source: European Union. (references) | |
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