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Meaning of 'calenture' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Calenture [ 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.
2 . Calenture [ v. i.]
- To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

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