AGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ague mean? 

• AGUE (noun)
  The noun AGUE has 3 senses:

1. a fit of shivering or shaking

2. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

3. a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

  Familiarity information: AGUE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fit of shivering or shaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("ague" is a kind of...):

illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ague; chills and fever

Hypernyms ("ague" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ague"):

quartan (a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day)

Holonyms ("ague" is a part of...):

malaria (an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acute; acute accent; ague

Hypernyms ("ague" is a kind of...):

accent; accent mark (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)

 Context examples 

Negore was armed with a miserable bone-barbed spear, and he kept his rabbit-skin robe wrapped closely about him, and though the day was warm he shivered as with an ague.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He seemed to be in the last extremity of fright, with a face the color of clay and his limbs all ashake as one who hath an ague.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It frightened and amazed me somewhat; and as for Arthur, he fell a-trembling, and finally was shaken with doubt as with an ague.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was looking up from the galley door, and I could see him trembling, as if with ague, in every limb.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He has had dreadful strokes of the sun, no doubt, and jungle fevers and agues, and every kind of thing you can mention.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whatever cross-accidents had occurred to intercept the pleasures of her nieces, she had found a morning of complete enjoyment; for the housekeeper, after a great many courtesies on the subject of pheasants, had taken her to the dairy, told her all about their cows, and given her the receipt for a famous cream cheese; and since Julia's leaving them they had been met by the gardener, with whom she had made a most satisfactory acquaintance, for she had set him right as to his grandson's illness, convinced him that it was an ague, and promised him a charm for it; and he, in return, had shewn her all his choicest nursery of plants, and actually presented her with a very curious specimen of heath.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Maybe you don't count it nothing to have a real college doctor to see you every day—you, John, with your head broke—or you, George Merry, that had the ague shakes upon you not six hours agone, and has your eyes the colour of lemon peel to this same moment on the clock?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a great jest of his, I recollect, to pretend that he couldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention was made of an Alguazill in connexion with the adventures of Gil Blas; and I remember that when Gil Blas met the captain of the robbers in Madrid, this unlucky joker counterfeited such an ague of terror, that he was overheard by Mr. Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)