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heartburn, n.|ˈhɑːtbɜːn|
Also 3 herte-bren.
[f. heart n. + burn n.3 Sense 2 translates Gr. καρδιαλγία in Galen: cf. heart n. 4.]
†1. Burning of heart; fire of passion. rare.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 4054 Ðe ȝinge wimmen of ðin lond..ðe cumen brewen herte-bren.
2. An uneasy burning sensation in the lower part of the chest, due to putrefactive fermentation of the food in the stomach; cardialgy.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxxxvi. 414 Small stonecrop..is good for the hart-burne. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 142 It is of singular force against the heart-burne. 1710–11Swift Lett. (1767) III. 105 Congreve's nasty white wine has given me the heart-burn. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 419, I have frequently known the heart-burn cured..by chewing green tea. 1880Beale Slight Ailm. 93 Chalk or magnesia is taken for the relief of the Heartburn.
3. Rankling jealousy, discontent, or enmity; = heart-burning n. 1.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 42 Faire Herse's happy state such heart-burne breeds In her black bosom. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 78 Not without a little of the heart-burn. 1862H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 253 Was so poor a triumph worth the exchange to an existence of struggle, and heartburn, and unrest? |