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A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose. I have a rheum in mine eyes too. Shak. Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.

Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. [Obs.]

nd muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart. Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

Of or pertaining to rheumatism.

Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum. Rheumic diathesis. See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.

The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.

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.

To contract a rheum. [Obs.] Harvey.

A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.

A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.

he nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

Purblind; blinding. [Obs.] "Bisson rheum." Shak.

Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant.

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.

t is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.