achat, achate, a cate

[O. Fr. acat, achata purchase; Fr. acheter; Low Lat. accapto = to purchase.] IMG:content-0107.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0108.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Of the body: To suffer pain, to be in pain, to be painful. "For all my bones, that even with anguish ache. Are troubled." Milton: Trans. Ps. vi. 2. Of the mind: To suffer grief, to be grieved, distre ed, or afflicted. "With present ills his heart must ache." Cowper: To Rev. Mr. Newton. In this sense also it is used, though more rarely, in composition, as heart -ache, meaning not disease of the physical organ, but mental distre . In Hudibras III. ii. 407, ach - es is a dis syllable. * Pricking aches : Convulsions. ( Rider .)