Colic

Definitions

1. Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
   countable, uncountable
2. Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions.
   countable, uncountable
3. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.”

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