ague

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An acute fever.
2. noun An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
3. noun The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.

   fever and ague

4. noun A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
5. noun Malaria.
6. verb To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

Similar words

acute acute accent chills and fever fever tertian quartan chills chill fantastique shivers

Often followed by

and in of fit is or was which that

Word family

agues aguish