megrim
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But that evening at supper, the serving-maid brought up a large brew of herbs, dark and nauseous, which Dame Ashton had sent as good for the young lady's megrim.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The late Dr. Monro asserted in his lectures, that he cured the hemicrania, or megrim, by a strong vomit, and a brisk purge immediately after it.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
One of his lampoons had almost cost him a procession at the cart's tail; nor did he either spare friend or foe, if the megrim of abuse once seized him.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Theophilus Cibber
I'll be all right to-morrow, and I'll enjoy to-morrow all the more for to-day's megrim.
From The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
Bartley Fallon: And a sort of a megrim in my head, the same as a sheep would get a fit of staggers in a field.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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