megrim
- Noun. (context, now) A headache; a migraine. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
- Noun. (context, in plural) Depression, low spirits, unhappiness. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
- Noun. (context, now) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
- Noun. (context, in plural) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers. (defdate, from 17th c.) .
- Noun. A type of European deep water flatfish, ''Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis''; the whiff or sail-fluke.
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