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Megrim   Listen
noun
Megrim  n.  
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.
2.
A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. "These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies."
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.



Megrim  n.  (Zool.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).






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"Megrim" Quotes from Famous Books



... hast thou enriched during thy career of extravagance, save those brokers of the devil—vintners, panders, gamblers, and horse-jockeys?" The anguish produced by this self-reproof was so strong that I put my hand suddenly to my forehead, and was obliged to allege a sudden megrim to my attendant, in apology for the action, and a slight groan with which ...
— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott

... Dr. Monro asserted in his lectures, that he cured the hemicrania, or megrim, by a strong vomit, and a brisk purge immediately after it. This method succeeds best if opium and the bark are given in due quantity after the operation of the cathartic; and with still more certainty, if bleeding in small quantity is premised, where the pulse will admit of ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... megrim," she said; "she is in her chamber." And she smiled at him again. For these two, as is the custom of young persons who love one another, had said not a word on either side—neither he to his father nor she to her parents. They believed, as young persons do, that parents who bring children into ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson

... who justly died, A blund'ring, artless suicide: Share, earthworms, share, since now he's dead, His megrim, maggot-bitten head." ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

... a tried and trusty friend to the English Commonwealth and its Protector!" said Sir Robert at last; adding, as if in apology for his emotion—"Constance! this strange megrim in my head!" And Constance, with the watchful care of an affectionate child, led him to his seat, presented him a glass of cordial; and not till he had declared himself quite recovered, did she return to her station on the low sofa, beside her ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall



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