1. (n.) A kind of sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

2. (n.) A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.

3. (n.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.

4. (n.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

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