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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :


  ague
       n 1: a fit of shivering
       2: successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of
          malaria [syn: chills and fever]
       3: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
          [syn: acute accent, acute]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :


  Ague
     the translation in Lev. 26:16 (R.V., "fever") of the Hebrew word
     kaddah'ath, meaning "kindling", i.e., an inflammatory or burning
     fever. In Deut. 28:22 the word is rendered "fever."

From eng-afr :


  ague
       koors

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary :


  Ague
  
  الحمّى

From English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary :


  ague
  
  groznica

From English-Czech fdicts/FreeDict Dictionary :


  ague
  
  zimnice

From eng-fra :


  ague
  	[eigjuː]
  	fièvre

From eng-hun :


  ague
  
  malária
  mocsárláz
  válltóláz

From English-Italian Freedict dictionary :


  ague
       febbre

From English-Latin Freedict dictionary :


  ague [eigjuː]
       febris

From English-Portugese Freedict dictionary :


  ague
       febre

From English-Portugese Freedict dictionary :


  ague
       febre

From English-Portugese Freedict dictionary :


  ague [eigjuː]
       febre

From English-Portugese Freedict dictionary :


  ague
       febre

From English-Spanish Freedict dictionary :


  ague [eigjuː]
       fiebre

From English-Swedish Freedict dictionary :


  ague [eigjuː]
       feber

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary :


  ague
  
  1. sıtma, malarya
  2. sıtma nöbeti . aguish  sıtmalı, sıtma getiren, nöbetli.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  221 Moby Thesaurus words for "ague":
     African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles,
     Haverhill fever, abscess, acute articular rheumatism,
     alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anemia, ankylosis,
     anoxia, anthrax, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy,
     bacillary dysentery, backache, bastard measles, black death,
     black fever, blackwater fever, bleeding, blennorhea,
     breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, bumpiness,
     cachectic fever, cachexia, cachexy, cerebral rheumatism,
     chattering, chicken pox, chill, chills, cholera, chorea,
     cold shivers, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cowpox,
     cyanosis, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever,
     diarrhea, diphtheria, dizziness, dropsy, dumdum fever, dysentery,
     dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, elephantiasis, emaciation,
     encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, fainting,
     famine fever, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fits and starts,
     five-day fever, flu, flux, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe,
     growth, hansenosis, hemorrhage, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex,
     herpes zoster, high blood pressure, histoplasmosis, hookworm,
     hydrophobia, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus,
     indigestion, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis,
     inflammation, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, insomnia,
     itching, jactation, jactitation, jail fever, jaundice, jerkiness,
     joltiness, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease,
     labored breathing, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa,
     loaiasis, lockjaw, low blood pressure, lumbago, madness, malaria,
     malarial fever, marasmus, marsh fever, measles, meningitis,
     milzbrand, mumps, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, ornithosis,
     osteomyelitis, pain, palsy, paralysis, paratyphoid fever,
     parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio,
     poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pruritus,
     psittacosis, quaking, quavering, quivering, rabbit fever, rabies,
     rash, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheum, rheumatic fever,
     rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina,
     scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, sclerosis, seizure,
     septic sore throat, shakes, shaking, shingles, shivering, shivers,
     shock, shuddering, skin eruption, sleeping sickness,
     sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sneezing, sore, spasm,
     spasms, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, succussion,
     swamp fever, tabes, tachycardia, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trembling,
     tremulousness, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia,
     tumor, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever,
     undulant fever, upset stomach, vaccinia, varicella, variola,
     venereal disease, vertigo, vibration, viral dysentery, vomiting,
     wasting, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona,
     zoster

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :


  n. 疟疾,打冷颤,发冷;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :


     n. 疟疾,打冷颤,发冷

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