rheum
noun
a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
rheums
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pluralof rheum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These, by their sweetness, allay the sharpness of rheums, and lenify their acrimony.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
His notebooks would appear to have contained more than remedial prescriptions for agues, fevers, and rheums.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
Mar. Subject to rots, and rheums; out on't, 'tis nothing But a tild fog.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb by Francis Beaumont
Daffy's elixir possesses extraordinary powers in purifying the blood and working off all phlegms, humours, vapours, or rheums.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Are you fond of coughs, colds, dyspepsia and rheums?
From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Rufus Porter
