pang1 (pang)

[Early mod. E. also pangue (in imitation of Frenchified spellings like tongue, etc.); The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Shak ., M. for M., iii. 1. 80. Haste, virgins, haste, for I lie weak and faint Beneath the pangs of love. Quarles , Emblems, v. 2. Through thy great farewell sorrow shot The sharp pang of a bitter thought. IMG:content-2230.png:[graphic] Whittier , Naples. = Syn. Anguish, Torture, etc. (see agony ), twinge, gripe, ache, suffering. panglt (pang), v. t. [ His chylde in the pestylence was in leopardy, And sore panged that he myght not meue hym. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. Š.), p. 47. I grieve myself To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her That now thou tirest on, how thy memory Will then be pang'd by me. Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 4. 98. IMG:content-2231.png:[blocks in formation]