megrims
Noun
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Noun
- plural form 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.]
- 1766, George Colman & David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, Act iv, Scene 2.
- Thou art properly my cephalick ſnuff, and art no bad medicine againſt megrims, vertigoes, and profound thinking […]
- 1766, George Colman & David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, Act iv, Scene 2.
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