Associations to the word «Calenture»

Wiktionary

CALENTURE, noun. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
CALENTURE, noun. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis