Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Illness caused by intemperance.

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  • Though then in his sixty-first year, James declares on his honour as a gentleman, that this was the first time he ever had fallen a victim to the barley-fever!

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

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