Definition of "headach"
headach
noun
plural headachs
Quotations
This does not seem much like joy, indeed, in me—(twinkling away a tear or two)—but it will be very trying for us to part with her, after having had her so long, and she has a dreadful headach just now, writing all the morning:—such long letters, you know, to be written to Colonel Campbell, and Mrs. Dixon.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, page 137
She presented the symptoms of bilious pleura-pneumonia: violent headach and little delirium, vomiting, tongue blood-red at the edges; yellow tint of the face, pleuritic stitch; sputa moulded; great oppression; respiration almost extinct at the base of the chest, &c.
1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24