Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In India, a remittent fever prevailing in the hill-country.

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Examples

  • She was with Lois Ann; it was the hill-fever, and she was mercifully spared the knowledge of suffering or -- renunciation.

    The Man Thou Gavest

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