megrims

/ ˈmiːɡrɪmz /

noun

This was the first attack of the megrims that I remembered in my mistress since the time when she was a young girl.

Some say he is sick of an ague; others that he was cut about the brows for the megrims, which vexeth him sore.

All shall be served with the same wine; the rich host shall not say, For my colic, or for my megrims, I must drink the better.

That might justify her, fairly enough, in being kept away from meeting now and again by headaches, or undefined megrims.

Probably nothing would have done so much to chase away the megrims that were always pestering him.

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