Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See ache.
  • noun In New Zealand, a small tree, Dodonæa viscosa, of the soapberry family, with very hard variegated wood.
  • noun In the Chatham Islands, a small tree, Shawia Traversii (Olearia Traversii of Hooker), of the aster family.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See ache.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb forever
  • verb Archaic spelling of ache.

Etymologies

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Maori.

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