megrim

English

Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrānía), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium).^[1] Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.

megrim (plural megrims)

(now rare) A headache; a migraine. [from 15th c.]
(now rare) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. [from 16th c.]
(in the plural) See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.

Unknown.

megrim (plural megrims)

A flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, a Cornish sole, sail-fluke, witch or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).
- 2016, http://specimenfish.ie/irish-record-fish/marine-species/megrim-lepidorhombus-whiffiagonis/:
  MEGRIM (LEPIDORHOMBUS WHIFFIAGONIS) […] NOTE: In Ireland,this species is often called "witch", a name that properly belongs to the craigfluke, Glyptocephalus cynaglossus, which is a right-handed flatfish. Both species are marketed as "white sole."

type of flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis