- (v.i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
- (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; especially 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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