megrim

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: me=grim

CIDE DICTIONARY

megrim, n. [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. ; - half + skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.  [1913 Webster]

  "These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

megrim, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

 The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

megrim, n.
1 archaic migraine.
2 a whim, a fancy.
3 (in pl.) a depression; low spirits. b staggers, vertigo in horses etc.

megrim, n. any deep-water flat-fish of the family Lepidorhombus, esp. L. whiffiagonis. Also called sail-fluke.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.