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Rheumy

//ˈɹuːmi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.
  2. 2
    Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery.

    "So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […]"

  3. 3
    Especially of the air: damp, moist. literary, obsolete, poetic

    "And vvill he ſteale out of his vvholſome bed / To dare the vile contagion of the Night? / And tempt the Rhevvmy, and vnpurged Ayre, / To adde vnto hit^([sic – meaning his]) ſickneſſe?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to arthritis wordnet
  2. 2
    moist, damp, wet (especially of air) wordnet

Etymology

From rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).

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