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megrim

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun megrim has 1 sense

megrim(n = noun.state) hemicrania, migraine, sick headache - a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men; Array

is a kind of cephalalgia, head ache, headache

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CIDE DICTIONARY

megrim, n. [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. ; - half + skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine.].

A kind of sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; now more commonly called migraine headache or migraine. [1913 Webster]
A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. [1913 Webster]
"These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies." [1913 Webster]
A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. Youatt. [1913 Webster]

megrim, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa). [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

megrim, n.
1 archaic migraine.
2 a whim, a fancy.
3 (in pl.) a depression; low spirits. b staggers, vertigo in horses etc.

megrim, n. any deep-water flat-fish of the family Lepidorhombus, esp. L. whiffiagonis. Also called sail-fluke.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.

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