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Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats.

vering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty. -- Fig marigold (Bot.), the name of several plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers. -- Fig tree (Bot.), any tree of the genus Ficus, but es…

Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. "Finical taste." Wordsworth. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt.

Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

racteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

ften unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu

Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

Affected with goiter.

Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele. Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots. W. Coxe.

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.