aiger

Noun

eagre (plural eagres)

1. a tidal bore
   • A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills: and Other Tales, page 210

   Synonyms:

   tidal bore, bore

Noun

ague (countable and uncountable, plural agues)

1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
2. An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
   • He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 8, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 163
3. The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
   • fever and ague
4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
   • November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart
     I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague
5. (obsolete) Malaria.
   • Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred

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