calenture

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Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

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 Denham, John, Sir

In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.

From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March

The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor

Love's calenture too well I understand; But sure your beauty is no fairy-land!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir