megrim Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
    migraine; hemicrania; sick headache.

WordNet

Me"grim noun
Etymology
OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. - half + skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine.
Definitions
  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. 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.
Me"grim noun
Etymology
Etymol. uncertain.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

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