King James Bible Dictionary

(Deuteronomy 28:22; Matthew 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter's wife's mother is said to have suffered from a "great fever" (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke's professional exactitude in describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as in those times fevers were divided into the "great" and the "less."

Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:22; Job 30:30; Psalms 22:15; Matthew 8:14; Acts 28:8

FE'VER, noun [Latin febris, supposed to be so written by transposition for ferbis, or fervis, from ferbeo, ferveo, to be hot.]

1. A disease, characterized by an accelerated pulse, with increase of heat, impaired functions, diminished strength, and often with preternatural thirst. This order of diseases is called by Cullen pyrexy, Gr. Fevers are often or generally preceded by chills or rigors, called the cold stage of the disease. Fevers are of various kinds, but the principal division of fevers is into remitting fevers, which subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers, which intermit or entirely cease at intervals; and continued or continual fevers, which neither remit nor intermit.

2. Heat; agitation; excitement by any thing that strongly affects the passions. This news has given me a fever This quarrel has set my blood in a fever .

FE'VER, verb transitive To put in a fever

FE'VER-COOLING, adjective Allaying febrile heat.

FE'VERET, noun A slight fever. [Not used.]

FE'VERFEW, noun [Latin febris and fugo.]

A plant, or rather a genus of plants, the Matricaria, so named from supposed febrifuge qualities. The common feverfew grows to the height of two or three feet with compound leaves and compound radiated white flowers, with a yellow disk.

FE'VERISH, adjective

1. Having a slight fever; as the patient is feverish

2. Diseased with fever or heat; as feverish nature.

3. Uncertain; inconstant; fickle; now hot, now cold.

We toss and turn about our feverish will.

4. Hot; sultry; burning; as the feverish north.

FE'VERISHNESS, noun The state of being feverish; a slight febrile affection.

FE'VEROUS, adjective

1. Affected with fever or ague.

2. Having the nature of fever.

All feverous kinds.

3. Having a tendency to produce fever; as a feverous disposition of the year. [This word is little used.]

FE'VER-ROOT, noun A plant of the genus Triosteum.

FE'VER-SICK, adjective Diseased with fever.

FE'VER-WEAKENED, adjective Debilitated by fever.

FE'VER-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.

FE'VER-WORT, noun [See Fever-root.]

FE'VERY, adjective Affected with fever.