a. [a. Fr. algide, ad. L. algid-us cold; f. algē-re to be cold: see -ID.] Cold, chill, chilly; especially of the cold stage of an ague.
1626. Cockeram, Algide, chill with cold.
1661. Lovell, Anim. & Min., 202. The [frog’s] heart applied to the back bone helps algid agues.
1859. R. Burton, in Jrnl. R. G. S., XXIX. 142. The hot fit is unusually long and rigorous, compared with the algid stage. Ibid. (1864), Dahome, II. 249. The algid breath of the desert wind.
