LekhoriLekhoriA severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.
O man haue mind of that laſt bitter throw; / For as the tree does fall, ſo lyes it euer low.
Any severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm.
Commend me to them, / And tell them, that to eaſe them of their greefes, / Their feares of Hoſtile ſtrokes, their Aches loſſes, / Their pangs of Loue, with other incident throwes / That Natures fragile Veſſell doth ſuſtaine / In lifes vncertaine voyage, I will ſome kindnes do them, […]
The noun is probably derived partly: * from Middle English throu, throwe (“(chiefly in the plural) uterine contraction during the birth of a child; pain experienced while giving birth; suffering; a pa...
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