Calenture

Definition of Calenture

Cal´en`ture
n.1.(Med.) 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.
v. i.1.To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
Or calentures in depths of limpid flood.
- Wordsworth.
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