feverish

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FE'VERISH, adjective 1. Having a slight fever; as the patient is feverish 2. Diseased with fever or heat; as feverish nature. 3. Uncertain; inconstant; fickle; now hot, now cold. We toss and turn about our feverish will. 4. Hot; sultry; burning; as the feverish north.
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