MEGRIM
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Me"grim (?), n. [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;- half + &unr_; skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine.] 1. 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.
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2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.
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These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies.
Ford.
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3. pl. (Far.) 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.
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Me"grim, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo&ö;l.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).
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