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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.

CURTESY, or COURTESY, Scotch law (law)


CURTESY, or COURTESY, Scotch law. A life-rent given by law to the surviving husband, of all his wife' s heritage of which she died intest, if there was a husband, of all his wife' s heritage of which she died intest, if there was a child of the Marriage born alive. The child born of the Marriage must be the child of the Marriage born alive. The child born of the Marriage must be the mother' s heir. If she had a child by a former Marriage, who is to succeed to mother' s heir. If she had a child by a former Marriage, who is to succeed to her estate, the husband has no right to the curtesy while such child is her estate, the husband has no right to the curtesy while such child is alive; so that the curtesy is due to the husband rather as father to the alive; so that the curtesy is due to the husband rather as father to the heir, than as husband to an heiress, conformable to the Roman law, which heir, than as husband to an heiress, conformable to the Roman law, which gives to the father the usufruct of what the child succeeds to by the gives to the father the usufruct of what the child succeeds to by the mother. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 30. Vide Estate by the curtesy. mother. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 30. Vide Estate by the curtesy.