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noun - A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
- 1719: w:Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
- : Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent by the excessive heat of the climate.
- A delerium occurring from such symptoms, in which a striken sailor pictures the sea as grassy greens and wishes to dive overboard into them.
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