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dropsy, n. (a.)|ˈdrɒpsɪ|
Forms: 3–5 dropesie, 4 dropecy, -sy(e, 5 dropsye, 6 dropcy, 6–7 dropsie, 4– dropsy.
[aphetic form of ME. i-, ydropsy, hydropsy, q.v.]
A. n.
1. a. A morbid condition characterized by the accumulation of watery fluid in the serous cavities or the connective tissue of the body.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 364/10 Some fullen in-to þe dropesie. 13..Cursor M. 11829 (Cott.) Ydropsi [Gött. þropsi, Fairf., Trin. þe dropesy] held him sua in threst. 1388Wyclif Luke xiv. 2 A man sijk in the dropesie [1382 syk in ydropesie]. c1440Gesta Rom. xviii. 54 (Harl. MS.) A man that hath the dropcy. c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 21 They fall in to dropesie. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 79 In a dropcy the body ys vnweldy, vnlusty and slo. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 488 Dropsies, and Asthma's and Joint-racking Rheums. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 567 A dropsy of the brain. 1857Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 297 Dropsy of the Cellular Tissue is quite a frequent occurrence.
fig.1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 37 Pampered vppe in..the very dropsie of excesse. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 345 The gout and dropsy of a big margent, litter'd and overlaid with crude and huddl'd quotations.
b. ‘In fish-culture, a disease of young trout.’ (Cent. Dict.)
c. A disease in succulent plants, from an excess of water; anasarca.
1846in Worcester. 1864Webster cites Wright.
†2. fig. An insatiable thirst or craving. Obs.
1548J. Hales in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. App. Q. 50 The great dropsy and the insatiable desire of riches of some men. 1612Dekker It be not good Wks. 1873 III. 358 Seas could not quench his dropsie. 1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 41 Ambition..will prove an insatiable Dropsy.
3. Comb., as dropsy-breeding, dropsy-dry, dropsy-like, dropsy-sick adjs.
1570Levins Manip. 54/37 Dropsyseke, hydropicus. 1603J. Davies Microcosm. (1876) 25 (D.) Many dropsy-drie forbeare to drinke Because they know their ill 'twould aggravate. a1618Sylvester Memorials of Mortalitie i. xx, As one dropsie-sick. 1619R. Harris Drunkard's Cup 14 This Dropsilike disease is almost incurable.
4. Money, esp. paid as a tip or as bribery. Cf. drop n. 18 d. slang.
[1616T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 33/1 He hath the siluer dropsie.] 1930‘Greenhorn’ Tinker, Tailor xi. 253 [He] lived only for tips, or ‘dropsy’ as it's called in the vernacular. 1934P. Allingham Cheapjack ix. 94, I always thought he took the dropsy. If you'd made it half-a-dollar he might have taken it. 1955P. Wildeblood Against Law 103 A nice bit of dropsy to a copper usually does the trick. 1969J. Gardner Compl. State of Death ii. 18 ‘The clients immediately think if you're a wop you'll be a push⁓over for dropsy.’ ‘Dropsy?’ ‘Payola...’
†B. attrib. or as adj.
a. = Dropsical. Obs.
1499Promp. Parv. 133/1 (Pynson) Dropsy man or woman, ydropicus. 1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 137 The dropsy dryeth that Tantale in the flood Endureth. 1617Hieron Wks. (1619–20) II. 219 Like a dropsie-man, who the more hee drinks, the more he desires to drinke. 1678Yng. Man's Call. 80 It was their cups which..brought the dropsie corpse so soon thither.
†b. fig. Charged with water. Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. i. Ark 523 All th' Earth's dropsie vapours. 1683Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 160 Anon a Dropsie cloud Puts out the Sun.
ˈdropsy v., to render swollen as with dropsy.
c1817Fuseli in Lect. Paint. xi. (1848) 548 Goltzius and Spranger..dropsied the forms of vigour, or dressed the gewgaws of children in colossal shapes. |