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   ague (āˈgū́), n. [OE. agu, ague, OF. agu, F. aigu, sharp, OF. fem. ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. acutus sharp. See Acute.]
   1. An acute fever. [Obs.] “Brenning agues.”  P. Plowman.
   
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   2. (Med.) A fever characterized by paroxysms of high fever and shaking chills.
   
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   3. The cold fit or rigor of malaria or any other intermittent fever; as, “fever and ague”.
   
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   4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Dryden. AS
   
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   Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]
   
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   Ague, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agued ().] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.  Heywood.
   
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