01 n. A kind of sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; now more commonly called migraine headache or …
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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. Also: migraine headache, migraine
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A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.“These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies.” — Ford.
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A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.(Far.)