Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Chilly; somewhat cold or shivering.
- Having the qualities of an ague: as, an aguish fever.
- Productive of agues: as, an aguish locality.
- Subject to ague.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.
- adjective Productive of, or affected by, ague.
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- adjective Characteristic of
ague
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- adjective affected by ague
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Examples
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Fate seemed resolved that I should have no chance of leaving the place without seeing in it something worth remembering, as I had no sooner returned to Sen's inn, which I did on my release, than I was seized with a kind of aguish fever, the effect, no doubt, of the exposure I had recently undergone.
Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan
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Fate seemed resolved that I should have no chance of leaving the place without seeing in it something worth remembering, as I had no sooner returned to Sen's inn, which I did on my release, than I was seized with a kind of aguish fever, the effect, no doubt, of the exposure I had recently undergone.
Under the Dragon Flag Allan, James 1898
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I long to see the snow again and to feel a genuine cold and escape from this "aguish" chill.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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But, upon the whole, it could not be fairly said that his appearance was unprepossessing; indeed, to the congenial, it would have been doubtless not uncongenial; while to others, it could not fail to be at least curiously interesting, from the warm air of florid cordiality, contrasting itself with one knows not what kind of aguish sallowness of saving discretion lurking behind it.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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But, upon the whole, it could not be fairly said that his appearance was unprepossessing; indeed, to the congenial, it would have been doubtless not uncongenial; while to others, it could not fail to be at least curiously interesting, from the warm air of florid cordiality, contrasting itself with one knows not what kind of aguish sallowness of saving discretion lurking behind it.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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Very well! then Henry gives a kind of aguish shake, and getting up, sighs from the bottom of his heart -- then holding up his head like a king, zays -- "Varmer, I have too long been a burden to you -- Heaven protect you, as you have me -- Farewell!
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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And not even the most brilliant scientists can calculate the aguish of emotional and sometimes literal captivity choking Iranians at home.
Melody Moezzi: Suffocating in Iran Melody Moezzi 2011
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And not even the most brilliant scientists can calculate the aguish of emotional and sometimes literal captivity choking Iranians at home.
Melody Moezzi: Suffocating in Iran Melody Moezzi 2011
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And not even the most brilliant scientists can calculate the aguish of emotional and sometimes literal captivity choking Iranians at home.
Melody Moezzi: Suffocating in Iran Melody Moezzi 2011
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And not even the most brilliant scientists can calculate the aguish of emotional and sometimes literal captivity choking Iranians at home.
Melody Moezzi: Suffocating in Iran Melody Moezzi 2011
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