rheum (see also SALT RHEUM)
1.
watery matter
secreted by glands, &c. (i) saliva Mer.V. I. iii. 118,
H5 III. v. 52
“spit and void his
upon”
; (ii) mucus from the nose Err. III. ii. 132; (iii)
tears Ado V. ii. 88,
John III. i. 22
“that lamentable ,”
IV. i. 33, iii. 108, Cor. V. v. [vi.] 46
“women's rheum,”
Ham. II. ii. 537 [529] “bisson rheum.”
2.
morbid defluxion of
humours (such as was supposed to cause rheumatism),
also, catarrh
Meas. III. i. 31
“the gout, serpigo, and
the ,”
Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 412,
Troil. V. iii. 105
“a in mine
eyes,”
Ant. III. ii.
57.
