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Calenture

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(1):

(n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.

(2):

(v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Calenture'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/calenture.html. 1828.
 
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