The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lung \Lung\ (l[u^]ng), n. [OE. lunge, AS. lunge, pl. lungen; akin to D. long, G. lunge, Icel. & Sw. lunga, Dan. lunge, all prob. from the root of E. light. [root]125. See Light not heavy.] (Anat.) An organ for a["e]rial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
My lungs began to crow
like chanticleer.
--Shak.
Note: In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See Respiration.
Lung fever (Med.), pneumoni
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Lung flower (Bot.), a species of gentian ( Gentian Pneumonanthe).
Lung lichen (Bot.), tree lungwort. See under Lungwort.
Lung sac (Zo["o]l.), one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine archaic English) pneumonia
Usage examples of "lung fever".
She might die here, of hunger, of lung fever, or of despair, eaten by rats.
But when this child was conceived, Uriens had been ill with the lung fever.
I don't think she even cared if he caught lung fever again, just as long as he didn't do it here and inconvenience her.
The array had lost seventy-nine horses and forty-two cattle to foot rot alone, and ninety-four soldiers to lung fever and dysentery, mostly from that first awful outbreak.
In the back of her mind she knew that Tawl was leaving things out no one dies of lung fever without pain-she also knew that if she asked him, he would tell her everything.
Mother Orla had died at the solstice of a lung fever and been buried with her gold neck ring, one hundred amber beads, a full bark bucket of beer, and a handsome flint dagger.
He heaved himself up on one elbow and wondered for a wild moment if he had been abed with lung fever, which he'd had when he was six.
Ridder is short of workers since the lung fever massacred the Wolvers.
Once, when he was a young boy, he had watched his near-brother, Basham, die of a lung fever.
The whitewashed walls seemed so stark compared to the strange and compelling frescoes that had decorated the other chamber, that haunted dreams made rich by a lung fever brought on by exhaustion.