megrim

A migraine.

A caprice or fancy.

Depression or unhappiness.

A form of headache usually confined to or beginning or predominating on one side of the head.

plural Lowness of spirits, as from headache or general physical disturbance; the “blues”; a morbid or whimsical state of feeling.

plural In farriery, a sudden attack of sickness in a horse at work, when he reels, and either stands still for a minute dull and stupid, or falls to the ground insensible. These attacks are often periodical, but are most frequent in warm weather.

The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

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.

A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.

A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.