rheumy, a.
(ˈruːmɪ)
[f. rheum1 + -y.]
1. = rheumatic a. 1.
| 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 242 The filthy reumicast of his bloudshotten snowt. 1596 P. Barrough Meth. Physick vii. v, Sirupes laxatiue for the purging..of matter that is rheumie and filthie. 1842 A. de Vere Song of Faith 197 Blear eyes scalded in their rheumy flood. |
2. = rheumatic a. 2. Also Comb.
| 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 158 Too-much Cold..Withers his face, hollows his rheumy eyes. 1614 ― Tobacco Battered 414 Base rheumy rascals. 1700 Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 269 His head, and rheumy eyes distil in show'rs. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. iv. iv. (1872) I. 127 The rheumy soberness of extreme age. 1842 Tennyson Vision of Sin xxiii, Till..the glow-worm of the grave Glimmer in thy rheumy eyes. 1895 Zangwill Master ii. ix, A rheumy-eyed stonemason. |
3. Moist, damp, wet; esp. of the air (cf., however, rheumatic 4 a).
| 1601 Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 266 And will he steale out of his wholsome bed To..tempt the Rhewmy and vnpurged Ayre, To adde vnto his sicknesse? 1715 Rowe Lady Jane Grey v. i, The night..with her raw And rheumy damps infests the dusky air. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 12 Forthwith, on rheumy pinions [orig. madidis alis] hieth he. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta I. 287 The two sisters walked..into the rheumy air. |