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Rheum

noun
1.
A watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose).
2.
Rhubarb.  Synonym: genus Rheum.



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"Rheum" Quotes from Famous Books



... and then let justice hold the scale. What follow'd was the riddle that confounds me. Through a close lane, as I pursu'd my journey, And meditating on the last night's vision, I spy'd a wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself; Her eyes with scalding rheum were gall'd and red: Cold palsy shook her head, her hands seem'd wither'd, And on her crooked shoulders had she wrapp'd The tatter'd remnant of an old strip'd hanging, Which serv'd to keep her carcase from the cold: So there was nothing of a piece about her. Her lower weeds were all o'er ...
— The Orphan - or, The Unhappy Marriage • Thomas Otway



Words linked to "Rheum" :   buckwheat family, Polygonaceae, family Polygonaceae, magnoliopsid genus, red-veined pie plant, dicot genus, emission, Indian rhubarb, Rheum palmatum, Himalayan rhubarb, discharge, rhubarb plant, rhubarb



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