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Meaning Of Calenture
n.
A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in
tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among
sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to
be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
v. i.
To see as in the delirium of one affected with
calenture.