Hypertext Webster Gateway: "megrim"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scaldfish \Scald"fish`\, n. [Scald, a. + fish.] (Zo["o]l.)
A European flounder ({Arnoglossus laterna}, or {Psetta
arnoglossa}); -- called also {megrim}, and {smooth sole}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Megrim \Me"grim\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.)
The British smooth sole, or scaldfish ({Psetta arnoglossa}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
megrim
n : a severe recurring vascular headache; occur more frequently
in women than men [syn: {migraine}, {sick headache}, {hemicrania}]
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