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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. moist, damp, wet (especially of air);
- Example: "the raw and theumy damp of night air"

2. of or pertaining to arthritis;
- Example: "my creaky old joints"
- Example: "rheumy with age and grief"
[syn: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rheumy \Rheum"y\, a.
   Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum;
   affected with rheum.
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         His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers. --Dryden.
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         And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
         To add unto his sickness.                --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]