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brow-ague en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A severe, recurring headache or neuralgic pain located just above the eyebrow or on one side of the forehead.
    • I got very thin and weak, and had a curious disease known (I have since heard) as brow-ague. Directly after breakfast every morning an intense pain set in on a small spot on the right temple. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 364:

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