Forms: 3 akende, ekinde; 5–6 akynge; 6–8 aking; 8– aching. [f. ACHE v. + -ING2.] Having the sensation of continuous or ever-recurring pain, throbbing painfully.
c. 1230. Ancren Riwle, 360. So sor ekinde heaued.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R. (1495), V. xix. 124. Yf the mouth be reed … and hote and akynge and brennynge.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., V. x. 35. A goodly medcine for mine aking bones.
1702. Rowe, Tamerlane, II. i. 961. My aking sight hangs on thy parting beauties.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 385. Yet is there in mine heart an aching pain.
† b. fig. in phr. an aching tooth. Obs.
1552. Huloet, Abcedarium, Akynge tothe, Rabidus dens.
1674. W. Allen, Dang. Enthus., 83. One would think you have an aking Tooth against outward teaching.
1721. Southerne, Maid’s last prayer, II. I. i. 17. Thou hast such an aking tooth after that maidenhead of hers.
