Ague
To shake with an ague in a dream — feverish, trembling — often mirrors a sense of physical or emotional disorder, of opinions and footing that will not hold steady. The older books also read it as a caution against overindulgence. The dream tends to ask where we feel unwell in body or resolve.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ague, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
A sickly condition of the dreamer is sometimes implied by this dream. To dream that you are shaking with an ague, signifies that you will suffer from some physical disorder, and that fluctuating opinions of your own affairs may bring you to the borders of prostration.
To see others thus affected, denotes that you will offend people by your supreme indifference to the influences of others.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you have one, warns you against an inclination to strong drink; to dream your sweetheart has an ague, denotes affection and happiness.