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noun

Megrim n.

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.

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

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.

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Words linked to "Megrim" : sick headache, migraine, hemicrania