megrim

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Megrim, pain on one side of the head, headache. 

From Playful Poems by Morley, Henry

"Ma foi! yes, like M. de Guise for St. Megrim."

From Chicot the Jester by Dumas père, Alexandre

Indeed I have so frightful a Megrim that I can scarcely tell what I write, and I dare not admit you to-day.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Here in a grotto, shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

Megrim, mē′grim, n. a pain affecting only one half of the head or face: lowness of spirits: a sudden sickness of a horse at work.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various