Megrim
Megrim , noun
[Old English migrim, migrene, French migraine, Late Latin hemigrania, Latin hemicrania, hemicranium, Greek {not transcribed}; {not transcribed}- half + {not transcribed} skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and compare 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.
2.
A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.
These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies.
3.
(Farriery) 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
Megrim , noun
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zoology) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).