From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ague \A"gue\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Agued}.] To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. --Heywood.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ague \A"gue\, noun [OE. agu, ague, OF. agu, F. aigu, sharp, OF. fem. ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. acutus sharp. See {Acute}.]
1. An acute fever. [Obs.] ''Brenning agues.'' --P. Plowman.
2. (Med.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. --Dryden.
{Ague cake}, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague.
{Ague drop}, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague.
{Ague fit}, a fit of the ague. --Shak.
{Ague spell}, a spell or charm against ague. --Gay.
{Ague tree}, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
2: successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria [syn: {chills and fever}]
3: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: {acute accent}, {acute}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
221 Moby Thesaurus words for "ague": African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, abscess, acute articular rheumatism, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, anthrax, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, bacillary dysentery, backache, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, bleeding, blennorhea, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, bumpiness, cachectic fever, cachexia, cachexy, cerebral rheumatism, chattering, chicken pox, chill, chills, cholera, chorea, cold shivers, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cowpox, cyanosis, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diarrhea, diphtheria, dizziness, dropsy, dumdum fever, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, elephantiasis, emaciation, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, fainting, famine fever, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fits and starts, five-day fever, flu, flux, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, growth, hansenosis, hemorrhage, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, high blood pressure, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammation, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, insomnia, itching, jactation, jactitation, jail fever, jaundice, jerkiness, joltiness, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, labored breathing, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, low blood pressure, lumbago, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marasmus, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, pain, palsy, paralysis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pruritus, psittacosis, quaking, quavering, quivering, rabbit fever, rabies, rash, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheum, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, sclerosis, seizure, septic sore throat, shakes, shaking, shingles, shivering, shivers, shock, shuddering, skin eruption, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sneezing, sore, spasm, spasms, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, succussion, swamp fever, tabes, tachycardia, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trembling, tremulousness, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, tumor, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, upset stomach, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, vertigo, vibration, viral dysentery, vomiting, wasting, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Ague the translation in Lev. 26:16 (R.V., "fever") of the Hebrew word kaddah'ath, meaning "kindling", i.e., an inflammatory or burning fever. In Deut. 28:22 the word is rendered "fever."
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