a. 1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Hot; sultry. “The feverish north.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
Syn. -- fevered. [ 1913 Webster ]
Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. Milton.
-- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]