rheum (n.) Old form(s): Rheume, Rheumes, Rhewme
catarrh, head-cold, coughing and spluttering
MM III.i.31[disguised Duke to Claudio] curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum
Oth III.iv.51[Othello to Desdemona] I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me
TNK V.iv.8[Palamon to his knights] We ... beguile / The gout and rheum [i.e. of old age]
WT IV.iv.396[disguised Polixenes to Florizel, of Florizel's father] Is he not stupid / With age and altering rheums?
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