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brow-agues

brow-agues is the plural of brow-ague.

Meaning of brow-ague

Noun

brow-ague (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

Questions about brow-agues

What is brow-agues the plural of?
Brow-agues is the plural of brow-ague.

Words near brow-agues in the dictionary

  1. brow levels
  2. brow ridge
  3. brow ridges
  4. brow'd
  5. brow-ague
  6. brow-agues
  7. brow-antlered deer
  8. brow-beat
  9. brow-beaten
  10. brow-beating
  11. brow-beats

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