A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Malaria and the chills that went with it. Later generalized to include any similar fever or chills.
An old fashioned term for any disease causing a fever
recurring fever or chills of malaria
intermittent chills and fever (as in malaria).
intermittent chills, fever and sweating. Example
Lev.26.16] A bodily shaking or shivering similar to that occasioned by terror. In the verb form it is to cause a shivering or strike with a cold fit.
successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
used to define the recurring fever & chills of malarial infection
Recurring fever & chills of malarial infection. Also known as "Chill fever", "the Shakes".
recurring fever and chills of malaria
Malarial Fever; Malarial or intermittent fever characterized by paroxysms (stages of chills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and followed by an interval or intermission whose length determines the epithets: quotidian, tertian, quartan, and quintan ague (defined in the text). Popularly, the disease was known as "fever and ague," "chill fever," "the shakes," and by names expressive of the locality in which it was prevalent--such as, "swamp fever" (in Louisiana), "Panama fever," and "Chagres fever."
chills, as in "Chills and Fever".
cold or fever, "the ague" was probably a malaria brought on by mosquitos in 16th Century England which was the last period that the country has large swamps before engineering and water projects -- and the weather -- cleared them out
An intermittent fever, sometimes with chills, as in malaria.