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(noun) - (1) Wind in the small guts.
--Elisha Coles' English Dictionary, 1713
(2) A kind of nervous colick, whose seat is the ileum, whereby that gut is twisted.
--John Walker's Dictionary of the English Language, 1835
(3) A dangerous disease consisting in the expulsion of feculent matter by the mouth, accompanied with a swelling of the lower ventricle, an intense pain, and a total constipation.
--Thomas Dyche's New General English Dictionary, 1740
January 17, 2018