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Megrim (?), 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 nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; now more commonly called migraine headache or migraine.

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    2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.

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

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    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.

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Megrim, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

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Scaldfish (?), n. [Scald, a. + fish.] (Zool.) A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.

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