calenture
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This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
A calenture is a form of fever at sea in which the sufferer believes himself to be surrounded by green fields, and often leaps overboard.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by Buchan, John
X. has one good story, and with that I leave him, wishing him with all my heart that little inland farm at last which is his calenture as he paces the windy deck.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
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