brow-ague

noun

A severe, recurring headache or neuralgic pain located just above the eyebrow or on one side of the forehead.

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Meanings

nounbrow-ague (plural brow-agues)

plural brow-agues

  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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