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Definition of 'rheum'Noun
(uncountable) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.
* 1916 , (James Joyce), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Macmillan Press Ltd, 102
- He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum .
Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a cold, catarrh; rheumatism.
*, II.8:
- hehad all his faculties free and easie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his stomacke.
(poetic) Tears.
Hyponyms
* (dried rheum around eyes) crusty (slang), gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)
Derived terms
* rheumatic
* rheumatism
* rheumy
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