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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Exies

or Axes. Hysterics; ague fits; any paroxysm.

“Jenny Ritherout has taen the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet ... for twa days successively.” —Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxxv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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