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Megrim
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.
3. 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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).