Word Meanings - FEVERET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A slight fever. Ayliffe.

Related words: (words related to FEVERET)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• SLIGHTY
  Slight. Echard.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.
• SLIGHTFUL
  See SLEIGHTFUL
• FEVEROUSLY
  Feverishly. Donne.
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• SLIGHTING
  Characterized by neglect or disregard.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• ENFEVER
  To excite fever in. A. Seward.
• CHAGRES FEVER
  A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.
• GASLIGHT
  1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. 2. A gas jet or burner.
• LAZARET FEVER
  Typhus fever.