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CALENTURE
Etymology
Noun
calenture (plural calentures)
A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.
Anagrams
• crenulate
Source: Wiktionary
Cal"en*ture, n. Etym: [F. calenture, fr. Sp. calenture heat, fever, fr. calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to be warm.] (Med.)
Definition: A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
Cal"en*ture, v. i.
Definition: To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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