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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scaldfish  \Scald"fish`\,  n.  [Scald,  a.  +  fish.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  European  flounder  ({Arnoglossus  laterna},  or  {Psetta 
  arnoglossa});  --  called  also  {megrim},  and  {smooth  sole}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Megrim  \Me"grim\,  n.  [Etymol.  uncertain.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  The  British  smooth  sole,  or  scaldfish  ({Psetta  arnoglossa}). 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Megrim  \Me"grim\,  n.  [OE.  migrim,  migrene  F.  migraine,  LL 
  hemigrania,  L.  hemicrania,  hemicranium  Gr  ?;  ?-  half  +  ? 
  skull.  See  {Hemi-}  and  {Cranium},  and  cf  {Hemicrania}, 
  {Migraine}.] 
  1.  A  kind  of  sick  or  nevrous  headache,  usually  periodical  and 
  confined  to  one  side  of  the  head. 
 
  2.  A  fancy;  a  whim;  a  freak;  a  humor;  esp.,  in  the  plural, 
  lowness  of  spirits. 
 
  These  are  his  megrims,  firks,  and  melancholies. 
  --Ford. 
 
  3.  pl  (Far.)  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  megrim 
  n  :  a  severe  recurring  vascular  headache;  occur  more  frequently 
  in  women  than  men  [syn:  {migraine},  {sick  headache},  {hemicrania}] 




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