Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PANG, n. [D. pynigen, G. peinigen, to torture, from pyn, pein, pain; Sax. pinan. See Pain.]

Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. – Is. xxi. I saw the hoary traitor, / Grin in the pangs of death, and bite the ground. – Addison.