καῦσος

A. causus, i.e. bilious remittent fever (the endemic fever of the Levant), Hp. VM 17 (pl.), Aph. 3.21 (pl.), Arist. Pr. 861b34, 862a2; πυρέττειν καύσῳ Id. Metaph. 981a12; κ. στομάχου heartburn, Dsc. 1.43, al.: generally, fever, heat, Nic. Th. 338.

II. in pl., lands fertilized by burning brushwood, etc., Ath.Med. ap. Orib. 1.2.4.