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Megrim [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Properly, a pain in the side of the head; hence, a disorder of the head; vertigo.

Megrim [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.

4. The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).