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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.

Feverishly. [Obs.] Donne.

See Fever root, under Fever.

Feverish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The sleeve below the elbow.

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan. -- n. sing. & pl.

See Grieve, an overseer.

A grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper,

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, grieves.

The head. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

In whetever manner, way, or degree. However yet they me despise and spite. Spenser. Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. Shak.

In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however. I am glad he's come, howsoever he comes. Shak.

Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being impreventable. [R.]

Not preventable; invitable.