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All-overish

A familiar expression meaning all over ill at ease. “I feel alloverish,” not exactly ill, but uncomfortable all over. The precursor of a fever, influenza, ague, etc.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.