ague
- n a fit of shivering or shaking
- n successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
- n a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- Another testing device described at the meeting was a vibrator which causes a battleship "to shiver like a man with the ague".
- An attack of ague later forced him to vary the diet somewhat with flour-and-water biscuits.
- But the vast realm over which she reigns trembled again with the ague of disintegrationthe Sudan broke away, all colonial Africa throbbed with the presence or possibility of .