- A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and
confined to one side of the head. - A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural,
lowness of spirits. - A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by
unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild
form of apoplexy. - The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).