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Tuthe-acke, Tuithe aik, n. Also: twithȝaik, tooth aike, -ach, tootatch. [ME and e.m.E. tothach(e (1377), tooth ache (Caxton), tooth ach (Shakespeare).] Toothache. 1550 Knox III 65.
Then suld it [sc. the Sacrament] not be useit to pray that the tuthe-acke be takin away from us; that oure oxen suld not tak the lowing ill [etc.] a1605 Montg. Flyt. 315 (T).
The phtiseik, the twithȝaik [H. toothaike], the tittis, and the tirrillis a1595 Misc. Spald. C. II xxx.
For tuithe aik Tak pellodrommy rwit and put betwene thair gumis 1614 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXVIII 84.
It [sc. tobacco] preserveth from the toothach 1693 Moncreiffs 291.
Materialls for fomenting his tootatch, 4 s.
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