[f. EAR sb.1]

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  1.  Pain in the drum of the ear; otalgia.

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1789.  W. Buchan, Dom. Med. (1790), 361. When the ear-ach proceeds from insects, or any hard body sticking in the ear, every method must be taken to remove them as soon as possible.

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1863.  Fr. A. Kemble, Resid. in Georgia, 63. A poor woman suffering dreadfully from the earache.

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  2.  dial. The Field Poppy. (Britten and Holland.)

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