† febrisn.
Obsolete.
A fever.
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feverOE
febris1483
feveress1495
calenture1593
febricitation1598
feverishness1638
pyrexia1777
febricity1873
febrility1873
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 230/3 Al that yere she was seke and laboured in the febrys.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon ii. sig. Aij It [Sorell water] is good for the hote ague or febres.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 219 Vter that tyme..Into the Walis seik in the febris la.
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n.1483- to kick up, make, raise a stour
- to lift a cry, one's voice
- to lift a finger
- to lift a finger against
- to lift a finger against a person
- to lift a finger against a thing
- to lift a finger to
- to lift a finger to a person
- to lift a finger to a thing
- to lift a hand against
- to lift a hand against a person
- to lift a hand against a thing
- to lift a hand to
- to lift a hand to a person
- to lift a hand to a thing
- to lift a person out
- to lift a person's hair
- to lift a person's spirits
- to lift at
- to lift from the font
- to lift hair
- to lift one's elbow
- to lift one's eyes, brow, face, visage
- to lift one's heart out of one's boots
- to lift one's heel against