See Also: Fever, Q(health)
fever(dictionary)
seven-day fever(medicine)
Q Fever(health)
Hay fever(health)
Five-day fever(health)
Fever(health)
red fever(medicine)
Fever(medicine)
Pym's fever(medicine)

fever (iou)



fever noun & verb. OE.
[Latin febris; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman fevre, Old & mod. French fievre from Latin.]
A. noun.
An abnormally high temperature of the body as a whole; any of various diseases characterized by this. OE.
blackwater fever, Lassa fever, relapsing fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever, etc. fever and ague (now US) malaria. hay fever: see HAY noun1.
I. Murdoch Jealousy inhabited her like a fever making her shake and sweat.
A state of intense nervous excitement or agitation. ME.
W. Empson The fever and multiplicity of life..are contrasted with the calm of the external space.
Comb.: fever heat the high temperature of the body in fever; fig. fever pitch; fever pitch a state of abnormal excitement; fever therapy the treatment of disease by induced fever.
b. verb.
verb trans. Affect (as) with a fever. E17.
R. L. Stevenson The stir and speed of the journey..fever him, and stimulate his dull nerves.
verb intrans. Be seized with a fever. M18.
feveret noun (now rare) a slight fever E18.