Crossword clues for megrim
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaldfish \Scald"fish`\, n. [Scald, a. + fish.] (Zo["o]l.) A European flounder ( Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see migraine.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context now rare English) A headache; a migraine. (from 15th c.) 2 (context in the plural English) depression, low spirits, unhappiness. (from 16th c.) 3 (context now rare English) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. (from 16th c.) 4 (context in the plural English) 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.) Etymology 2
n. A type of European deep water flatfish, ''Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis''; the whiff or sail-fluke.
WordNet
n. a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men [syn: migraine, sick headache, hemicrania]
Wikipedia
The megrim or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) is a species of left-eyed flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea between below sea level. It is caught commercially in some countries.
Usage examples of "megrim".
She is the clinging sort, just like her mother, and would demand constant escort, falling into megrims and hysterics at any hint of neglect.
Like Jonathan Edwards, like David Osgood, he felt his call to be to study-work, and was impatient of the egotisms and spiritual megrims, in listening to which, especially from the younger females of his flock, his colleague had won the hearts of so many of his parishioners.
What did Julia Antonia do to those three boys, between her megrims and her vapors, her disastrous choice of husbands, and her inability to keep a properly Roman household?
But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable?
Beatrice Coddington had an attack of the megrims and remained in her room.
Like Jonathan Edwards, like David Osgood, he felt his call to be to study-work, and was impatient of the egotisms and spiritual megrims, in listening to which, especially from the younger females of his flock, his colleague had won the hearts of so many of his parishioners.
What did Julia Antonia do to those three boys, between her megrims and her vapors, her disastrous choice of husbands, and her inability to keep a properly Roman household?
But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable?
It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred.
He said that hehad never seen such a set of rum touches in his life, andrepresented to Miss Charing in the strongest terms thatanother five minutes spent in the Chapel would make themboth feel as blue as megrim.
Anna was amazed that someone who could face down a chief ranger would be given the megrims by a mere grizzly bear.