Stomach ache. Cf. womb, n. 1.

A persistent fretting pain (in the bowels); now only of such pain caused by want of food; plural pangs (of hunger).

Pathology. A wringing or griping of the bowels; tormina. Obsolete. (The earliest sense in English.)

A name given to severe paroxysmal griping pains in the belly, due to various affections of the bowels or other parts; also to the affections of…

A gnawing or pain (in the bowels). Obsolete.

the worm: formerly a popular name for various ailments supposed to be caused by the working of a… Colic. Scottish. Obsolete.

A sharp or griping pain, esp. in the intestines.

The action of gripe, v.1 in various senses.

Griping or wringing pain. Obsolete. rare.

A griping or wringing pain, esp. in the intestines. Obsolete.

‘The colic or pain in the bowels.’ Johnson.

spec. A griping or wringing pain in the bowels: = tormina, n. Obsolete.

Affecting the colon; of, or of the nature of, colic; in colic passion = A., colic pains, etc.

colic caused by flatulence.

pain in the belly, colic.

pain in the bowels, colic.

Pain in the bowels, gripes, colic. Also plural. Now dialect. Cf. fret, v.1 4.

transferred and figurative (cf. 1b). An intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels. Usually plural, colic pains.

A griping pain in the bowels. Obsolete.

In plural. Now chiefly regional. Stomach ache, colic; diarrhoea. In early use in sick of the mulligrubs.

Stomach ache; colic.

With plural agreement. Acute griping or wringing pains in the bowels; gripes. Also figurative.

Irritating action.

Pain in the stomach or abdomen. Also figurative.

Pain in the stomach; = gastralgia, n.

= stomach-ache, n.

colic due to an intestinal concretion (cf. stone-colic n. at stone, n. compounds 2a.

†(a) an epidemic disease affecting the stomach; (b) = stomach-ache, n.

Pain in the stomach, esp. neuralgia of the stomach.

an abdominal pain.