Rheumy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rheumy \Rheum"y\, a.
     Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum;
     affected with rheum.
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           His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers. --Dryden.


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           And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
           To add unto his sickness.                --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rheumy
       adj 1: moist, damp, wet (especially of air); "the raw and theumy
              damp of night air"
       2: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints";
          "rheumy with age and grief" [syn: {arthritic}, {creaky}, {rheumatic},
           {rheumatoid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "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