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dropsied, a.|ˈdrɒpsɪd|
[f. dropsy n. + -ed2.]
Having the dropsy; swollen with or as with water; watery; inflated, turgid.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 135 Where great addition swells, and vertue none, It is a dropsied honour. a1631Drayton Noah in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 119 The dropsied clouds, see, your destruction threat. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. ii. 640 Our dropsied ship may founder by the lee. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 65 III. 14 An infant with a dropsied head. |