- Obs. migraine
- Archaic a whim, fancy, or fad
- [pl.]Rare low spirits; the blues
Origin of megrim
Late Middle English migreime from Old French migraine: see migrainemegrim
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megrim
noun
- A migraine.
- often megrims A caprice or fancy.
- megrims Depression or unhappiness: “If these megrims are the effect of Love, thank Heaven, I never knew what it was” ( Samuel Richardson )
Origin of megrim
Middle English migrem variant of migraine ; see migraine .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural megrims)
- (now rare) A headache; a migraine. [from 15th c.]
- (in the plural) Depression, low spirits, unhappiness. [from 16th c.]
- (now rare) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. [from 16th c.]
- (in the 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. [from 17th c.]
Origin
From Middle French migraigne, from Vulgar Latin pronunciation of Late Latin hemicrania (“pain in one half of the head"), from Ancient Greek ἡμικÏᾱνίᾰ (hemikrania), from ἡμι- (hÄ“mi-, “hemi-, half") + κÏανίον (kranion, “skull") (from whence also cranium). Compare migraine, hemicrania.
Noun
(plural megrims)
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megrim - Medical Definition
n.
- A migraine.
- often megrims A caprice or fancy.
- megrims Depression or unhappiness.
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