sick headache
noun1
Archaic A migraine.
- Rheumatism—Palsy, curvature of the Spine, Chronic Diseases, Tic-doloureaux, Paralysis Tubercula of the brain, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, sick-headache.1846, editorial staff, “ELECTRICITY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 103:
- In very much this way Topsy’s training proceeded, for a year or two,—Miss Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache.1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: