Fe"ver*ish, a.
1.
Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
2.
Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
3.
Hot; sultry.
"The
feverish north."
Dryden.
4.
Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
Strive to keep up a frail and feverish bing.
Milton.
-- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n.
© Webster 1913.