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rheumy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective rheumy has 2 senses
- rheumy(s = adj.all) Array - moist, damp, wet (especially of air); "the raw and theumy damp of night air" Derived form noun rheum1
- rheumy(s = adj.all) arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid - of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"
CIDE DICTIONARY
rheumy, a.
Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum. [1913 Webster]
"His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers."
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"And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
To add unto his sickness." [1913 Webster]
To add unto his sickness." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
rheumy
bloody, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, excretory, humoral, ichorous, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy, purulent, pussy, salivant, salivary, salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearlike, watering, watery
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