megrims

• I'll venture that none of this generation ever had a vapor in her life; and as for megrims, she wouldn't know one if she met it in the big road. —  Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
• She may be muscle-bound and throw a splint sometimes, or get the Charley horse; but megrims are not for her--believe me Oh, I've seen them often--the adorable yet brawny creatures, leaping six feet into the air and smacking a defenseless tennis ball with such vigor that it started right off in the general direction of Sioux Falls at the rate of upwards of ninety miles an hour, and coming down flat-footed without having jostled so much as a hairpin out of place. —  Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
• Don't waste your time in thinking of girls' megrims--or of their mothers' nonsense I left her presence with a strong sense that Providence had erred in not making her a saint, a king, or anything else that demands a resolute repression of human infirmities. —  The King's Mirror
• Calliope, especially, was wont to express his ennui according to his lights FOOTNOTE 114: megrims--depression, unhappiness Over night Calliope had hung out signals of approaching low spirits. —  Heart of the West [Annotated]
• The surly wench, out of all patience with his megrims, as she called them, gave him a blow with a log upon the parts affected; which so enraged him, that he instantly rose up, and from that moment recovered the use of his legs.--Was reason concerned any more here; or was it not rather one blind impulse acting against another Imagination has, unquestionably, a most powerful effect upon the mind, and in all these miraculous cures, is by far the strongest ingredient. —  Thaumaturgia

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms