fever and ague and variants: a disease characterized by recurrent episodes of fever or fever and chills, esp. malaria; an instance or case of…

A fever so produced; a marsh-fever.

A form of malaria prevalent in or (supposedly) specific to Rome. Now historical.

Originally: an unwholesome condition of the atmosphere attributed to marshy districts of Italy and other hot countries; any febrile disease thought…

malaria.

a malarious fever.

Lacking some property, quality, or accompaniment, normally belonging to things of the name.

malaria (now rare); the (characteristic pattern of) fever seen in malaria.

a dangerous febrile disease contracted in Central America, esp. yellow fever.

(a) malarial fever prevalent in swampy regions; (b) a contagious virus disease of horses, causing anæmia, emaciation, and usually death.

Originally: characterized by or associated with the presence of dark pigment (spec. haemoglobin) in the urine. In later use also: of, relating to, or…

Malarial fever.

Subtertian malaria; spec. falciparum malaria. Now rare.