Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone; bone-ache.

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

  • noun (Med.) Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone.

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

  • noun medicine pain in the bones

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek a bone + a striking, pain: compare French ostéocope.

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