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megrims

n. 1 (plural of megrim English) 2 Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses. ''(More at megrim.)'' 3 (context usually with "the" English) Depression, low spirits, unhappiness.

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megrims

n. a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues" [syn: blues, blue devils, vapors, vapours]

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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?