Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Illness caused by intemperance.
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Examples
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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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