calenture

calenture has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
• v. i.. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.