Defn: A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors. [Written also magilp, and magilph.]
MEGOHM
Meg"ohm", n. Etym: [Mega- + ohm.] (Elec.)
Defn: One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.
MEGRIM
Me"grim, n. Etym: [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL. hemigrania,
L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. Hemi- and Cranium, and cf.
Hemicrania, Migraine.]
1. A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.
3. pl. (Far.)
Defn: A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. Youatt.
MEGRIM
Me"grim, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).