Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ague-grass.

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Examples

  • The juices of the fever or ague-root in beer or water "purgeth downward with some violence ... in powder ... it only moveth sweat."

    Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes

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