Rheumatic, affected with rheumatism, causing rheumatism, or pertaining to it: “o'erworn, despised, r. and cold,” Ven. 135. “this raw r. day,” Wiv. III, 1, 47. “that r. diseases do abound,” Mids. II, 1, 105.*
Misapplied by Mrs Quickly: “you are both as r. as two dry toasts,” H4B II, 4, 62. “but then he was r. and talked of the whore of Babylon,” H5 II, 3, 40.*
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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