rheum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English reume, rewme, from Anglo-Norman reume, from Late Latin rheuma, from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, humour”). Doublet of stream.
Inflected forms:
form: rheums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]
[T]thronging theaters of people (as well Aliens as Engliſhmen) hiued thither about the ſelling of fiſh and Herring, from Saint Michael to Saint Martin, and there built ſutlers booths and tabernacles, to canopie their heads in from the rhewme of the heauens, or the clouds diſſoluing Cataracts.
He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum.
gloss: Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And not as ſome yeeres ſince, I ſaw a Deane of S. Hillarie of Poictiers, reduced by reaſon and the incommoditie of his melancholy to ſuch a continuall ſolitarineſſe, that when I entered into his chamber he had never remooved one ſteppe out of it in twoo and twenty yeares before: yet had all his faculties free and eaſie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his ſtomake.
gloss: Tears.
pos: noun
tags: countable
poetic
uncountable
examples: Rich. And ſay, what ſtore of parting tears were ſhed? / Aum. Faith none for me: except the Northeaſt wind / Which then grew bitterly againſt our face, / Awak’d the ſleepie rhewme, and ſo by chance / Did grace our hollow parting with a teare.
Derived words: enrheum
rheumatic
rheumatism
rheumed
rheumic
rheumy
salt rheum
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: غَمَص
roman: ḡamaṣ
lang: Arabic
word: رَمَص
roman: ramaṣ
lang: Arabic
word: عماص
roman: ʕumaaṣ, ʕemaaṣ
lang: Armenian
word: ճպուռ
roman: čpuṙ
lang: Bulgarian
word: гурел
roman: gurel
lang: Czech
word: ospalek
lang: Finnish
word: rähmä
lang: Greek
word: τσίμπλα
roman: tsímpla
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λήμη
roman: lḗmē
lang: Hungarian
word: csipa
lang: Ingrian
word: räämy
lang: Ingrian
word: sitta
lang: Italian
word: cispa
lang: Japanese
word: 目脂
roman: meyani
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ڕیپۆق
roman: rîpoq
lang: Latin
word: grāmiae
lang: Macedonian
word: гурелка
roman: gurelka
lang: Magahi
word: 𑂍𑂰𑂀𑂒𑂲
roman: kā̃cī
lang: Malay
word: tahi mata
lang: Māori
word: pīkari
lang: Portuguese
word: remela
lang: Punjabi
word: ਗਿੱਡ
roman: giḍḍa
lang: Romagnol
word: càcar
lang: Romagnol
word: càcula
lang: Spanish
word: lagaña
lang: Spanish
word: legaña
lang: Spanish
word: pitarra
lang: Spanish
word: pitaña
lang: Spanish
word: chele
lang: Spanish
word: magaña
lang: Spanish
word: chinguiña
lang: Tahitian
word: vare
lang: Tamil
word: பீளை
roman: pīḷai
lang: Tamil
word: பூளை
roman: pūḷai
lang: Telugu
word: బూజ
roman: būja
lang: Turkish
word: çapak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چاپاق
roman: çapak
lang: Vietnamese
word: dử
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhử
lang: Vietnamese
word: ghèn
lang: Vietnamese
word: rử
lang: Vietnamese
word: gỉ
lang: Welsh
word: môl