TY'PHUS, adjective [from Gr. to inflame or heat. Hippocrates gave this name to a fever which produced great heat in the eyes.] A typhus disease or fever is accompanied with great debility. The word is sometimes used as a noun.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.