calenture
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He who held command that lamentable day was Captain--now Sir Mortimer--Ferne; for I, who was Admiral of the expedition, must lie in my cabin, ill almost unto death of a calenture.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture?
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
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 Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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 Mary Lamb
And us wi' scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an' no luck this cruise, neither!
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
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