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If from the mirach, a swelling and wind in the hypochondries, a loathing, and appetite to vomit, pulling upward.
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[1038] Capivaccius and Mercurialis have copiously discussed this question, and both conclude the subject is the inner brain, and from thence it is communicated to the heart and other inferior parts, which sympathise and are much troubled, especially when it comes by consent, and is caused by reason of the stomach, or mirach, as the
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The mirach, or lower parts of the fisticuffs. belly, like a high-crowned hat.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The mirach, or lower parts of the fisticuffs. belly, like a high-crowned hat.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The mirach, or lower parts of the fisticuffs. belly, like a high-crowned hat.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
chained_bear commented on the word mirach
"... in astronomy, a bright fixed star, of the second magnitude, in the girdle of the constellation Andromeda, marked β in our catalogues...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 280
October 13, 2008