Calenture

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

Compare calenture with other words:

calenture vs. sailor

calenture vs. delirium

calenture vs. heat