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Aguish

Aguish \A"gu*ish\, a.

  1. Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.

    Her aguish love now glows and burns.
    --Granville.

  2. Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.
    --T. Arnold. [1913 Webster] -- A"gu*ish*ness, n.

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aguish

a. Characteristic of ague

WordNet
aguish

adj. affected by ague

Usage examples of "aguish".

Other physicians testify to the fact, that near the Thames marshes, the prevalent diseases are all of them of an aguish type, intermittent and remittent, and that they are accompanied with much dysentery.

Persons are deterred from settling in the neighborhood by the aguish character of the country.

Shaking with aguish fear, and pain, She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.

The monarch instantly retired to his chamber, and, as he lay, trembling with aguish cold, under a weight of bed-clothes, he expressed, in broken murmurs to his physician Elpidius, his deep repentance for the murders of Boethius and Symmachus.