Hysterics; ague fits; any paroxysm.
“Jenny Ritherout has taen the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet … for twa days successively.”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxxv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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