† wedenonfa'n.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Ague (in later use spec. puerperal ague, weed n.3), or a fit of this.
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accessc1300
aguec1325
wedenonfa'c1500
exiesa1585
fen-shake1794
trembling aixies1808
(the) shivers1861
shaking1877
c1500 Rowlis Cursing 57 in Bannatyne MS. (Hunterian Club) 300 The worme, the wareit wedonynpha [Maitl. MS. vedumfa], Rumbursin, ripplis, or bellythra[w].
1597 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (Bannatyne Club) II. 27 Item, for hailling of women of the Wedonynpha [by sorcery].
1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 33 I wis fley'd that she had taen the wytenon-fa..far she shuddered a' like a klippert in a cauld day.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wedonypha... This [see quot. 1755] is rendered ‘trembling, chattering’. But it is the term generally used in the North, to express that disease peculiar to women, commonly called a weid; weidinonfa. Ang[us].
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