MEGRIM

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

2.
n.

A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.

3.
n.

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.

4.
n.

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


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