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Pain in the head; ceph "Headaches and shivering fits." Macaulay.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

Pain in the head; headache.

Relating to, or affected with, headache. -- n.

A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

ized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Headache extending all over the head.

s, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.

Afflicted with headache. [Colloq.]

r suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.

associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or insular, sclerosis.

Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

reparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.