MEGRIMS

blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours

(noun) a state of depression; “he had a bad case of the blues”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

megrims

plural of megrim

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.]

(usually, with "the") Depression, low spirits, unhappiness. [from 16th c.]

Anagrams

• gimmers, mergism

Source: Wiktionary


MEGRIM

Me"grim, n. Etym: [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. 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.)

Definition: 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.

Me"grim, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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