Fe"ver*ous (?), a. [Cf.F. fi'evreux.]

1.

Affected with fever or ague; feverish.

His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats.

2.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.

All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton.

3.

Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.

[R.]

Bacon.

 

© Webster 1913.

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