calenture

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A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy greens and wishes to dive overboard into them
A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics

Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate.

{n} a sun-fever, frequent in hot climates
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
A delerium occurring from such symptoms, in which a striken sailor pictures the sea as grassy greens and wishes to dive overboard into them
{i} tropical fever causing hallucinations
To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture
A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp
calenture
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