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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Megrim \Me"grim\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.)
   The British smooth sole, or scaldfish ({Psetta arnoglossa}).

Megrim \Me"grim\, n. [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL.
   hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. ?; ?- half + ?
   skull. See {Hemi-} and {Cranium}, and cf. {Hemicrania},
   {Migraine}.]
   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.

Source : WordNet®

megrim
     n : a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently
         in women than men [syn: {migraine}, {sick headache}, {hemicrania}]
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