megrim

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"As you refuse to hearken to the voice of common sense, and afflict yourself with a megrim, I leave you to your fate."

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

"Mr. Manners was in Derby, and Mrs. Manners had a megrim."

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

I'd have called it a kind of a megrim myself, and, as I say, I certainly perceived a sort of charnel-'ouse smell in the room I'm in.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin

"Mother has a megrim," she said; "she is in her chamber."

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

Even if he has no special craze or megrim, and does not decide offhand that a man is hopeless because he calls Charles the Great Charlemagne, or vice vers�, he is constantly out of focus.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George