migrnat.html - n.
a recurrent throbbing headache that usually affects one side of the head, often accompanied by nausea and disturbance of vision.

migrainous adj. [F f. LL hemicrania f. Gk hemikrania (as HEMI-, CRANIUM): orig. of a headache confined to one side of the head]

migrnat.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

that migrates.

--n.

a migrant person or animal, esp. a bird.

migrnat.html - v.intr.
1 (of people) move from one place of abode to another, esp. in a different country.
2 (of a bird or fish) change its area of habitation with the seasons.
3 move under natural forces.

migration n. migrational adj. migrator n. migratory adj. [L migrare migrat-]

migrnat.html - See: WITH MIGHT AND MAIN.

migrnat.html - See: HIGH-AND-MIGHTY.

migrnat.html - past of MAY, used esp.: 1 in reported speech, expressing possibility (said he might come) or permission (asked if I might leave) (cf. MAY 1, 2).
2 (foll. by perfect infin.) expressing a possibility based on a condition not fulfilled (if you'd looked you might have found it; but for the radio we might not have known).
3 (foll. by present infin. or perfect infin.) expressing complaint that an obligation or expectation is not or has not been fulfilled (he might offer to help; they might have asked; you might have known they wouldn't come).
4 expressing a request (you might call in at the butcher's).
5 colloq. a = MAY 1 (it might be true). b (in tentative questions) = MAY 2 (might I have the pleasure of this dance?). c = MAY 4 (who might you be?).

might as well expressing that it is probably at least as desirable to do a thing as not to do it (finished the work and decided they might as well go to lunch; won't win but might as well try). might-have-been colloq.
1 a past possibility that no longer applies.
2 a person who could have been more eminent.