An acute pain. E. Anglia, 1825. N.E.D.
1833. You never seed sich a poor afflicted crittur as I be, with the misery in my tooth.—James Hall, ‘Legends of the West,’ p. 82.
1839. “Can he cure a misery in the tooth?” demanded another.—R. M. Bird, ‘Robin Day,’ ii. 29 (Phila.).
