English dictionary
calenture
/'k/&/l/@/n/tS//@/r/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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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.
Source: webster1913
verb
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To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
Source: webster1913