shivering-fit
1fit — I [[t]fɪ̱t[/t]] BEING RIGHT OR GOING IN THE RIGHT PLACE ♦♦ fits, fitting, fitted (In American English the form fit is used in the present tense and sometimes also as the past tense and past participle of the verb.) 1) VERB If something fits, it… …
2Shivering Sands Army Fort — [U7] was a Maunsell army fort built near the Thames estuary for anti aircraft defence. It is made up of several once interconnected towers and is 9.2 miles from the nearest land. It has been suggested that it should be dismantled. History The… …
3fit — 1. An attack of an acute disease or the sudden appearance of some symptom, such as coughing. 2. A convulsion. 3. (plural) epilepsy 4. In dentistry, the adaptation of any dental restoration, e.g., of an inla …
4ague — [ eɪgju:] noun archaic malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering. ↘a fever or shivering fit. Derivatives agued adjective aguish adjective Origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. acuta (febris) acute (fever) …
5ague — n. 1. Chilliness, cold, chill, shiver, shivering, shivering fit, shakes. 2. Intermittent fever, fever and ague, chills, chills and fever …
6ague — ► NOUN archaic 1) malaria or some other illness involving fever and shivering. 2) a fever or shivering fit. ORIGIN from Latin acuta febris acute fever …
7chill — I. n. 1. Cold, coldness, chilliness, frigidity. 2. Shiver, ague, shivering fit, ague fit, rigor. 3. Depression, damp, depressing influence. II. a. Cold, frigid, chilly, bleak. III. v. a. 1. Make chilly, make cold …
8der-, heavy basis derǝ-, drē- — der , heavy basis derǝ , drē English meaning: to cut, split, skin (*the tree) Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schinden, die Haut abziehen, abspalten, spalten” Note: Root der , heavy basis derǝ , drē : “to cut, split, skin (*the tree)”… …
9Alexander I of Greece — Alexander, King of the Hellenes ( el. Αλέξανδρος, Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων; 1 August 1893 ndash;25 October 1920) ruled Greece from 1917 to 1920 until his unusual death as the result of sepsis contracted by being bitten by two monkeys.Early lifeHe was …
10algor — n. coldness; shivering fit in fever …
