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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1654-1676
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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
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