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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.