A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Tympany, -ie, -um, n. [e.m.E. tympany (1528), timpanie (1577-87), med. L. timpanias.] Distension or swelling of the stomach. —1654 Lamont Diary 80.
She died of a tympanie and swelling in hir belly 1658 Baillie III 374.
His bellie and leggs began to swell to an hydropick tympanie a1670 Scot Staggering State 66.
She … got many potions from doctors, as having a tympany 1676 Lauder Notices Affairs I 102.
Shee had called hir swelling only a hydropsie or tympanum
