6 definitions found for rheumy

Rheumy RHEU'MY, a. [from rheum.]
1. Full of rheum or watery matter; consisting of rheum or partaking of its nature.
2. Affected with rheum.
3. Abounding with sharp moisture; causing rheum.

rheumy adj 1: moist, damp, wet (especially of air); "the raw and theumy damp of night air" 2: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy]

rheumy adjective see rheum

rheumy If someone has rheumy eyes, their eyes are red and watery, usually because they are very ill or old. (LITERARY) ADJ: usu ADJ n

Rheumy Rheum"y, a. Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum. His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers. --Dryden. And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness. --Shak.

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "rheumy": bloody, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, excretory, humoral, ichorous, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy, purulent, pussy, salivant, salivary, salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearlike, watering, watery