Fe"ver*ish, 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.

2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

3. Hot; sultry. "The feverish north." Dryden.

4. Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Strive to keep up a frail and feverish bing.

-- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n.

• In the state of having a fever, to have an elevated body temperature.
       The illness made him feverish, so they applied cold compresses.
  
• filled with excess energy.
       He worked with feverish excitement.