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ague AY-gyoo noun aches and chills; fever with shivering and shaking, sometimes including aching bones and joints and persistent tiredness or exhaustion; malaria 1697A New Voyage Round the WorldHere I was taken sick of Fever and Ague that afterward turned to Dropsy, which I laboured under a long time after, a many of our men died of this Distempter, though our Surgeons used their greatest Skill to preserve their Lives.1849The Caxtons...the quotidian ague of frigid impertinences…Labels: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Dampier
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