rheumyadj.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke vi. v. 283 Syrupes laxatiue for the purging..of matter that is reumie and filthie.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D2 The filthye reumycast of his bloudshotten snowt.

1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. l. 384 Therefore these four particulars are false, to wit, that corrupt Pus is the matter of a Catarrhe; that a Catarrhe is materially from a vapour of the Stomack; that a Rheumy mater is expelled by an Issue; and that this Rheumy matter is diverted on a noble part, unless it be revulsed or drawn back to some other place by a hole.

1752 T. Hudson Poems 139 Her haggard face is plow'd with wrinkling years, And down her cheeks distill the rheumy tears.

1862 G. E. Allshorn Handy Bk. Domest. Homœopathic Pract. 143 It [sc. influenza] greatly resembles common cold, commencing with listlessness, languor, chilliness, and headache, sneezing and coughing, discharge of rheumy matter from the nose and eyes, and thirst.

1899 Harper's Weekly 14 Jan. 40/2 He wiped a rheumy tear from his face with a lean hand.

1926 C. S. Brooks Roundabout to Canterbury ii. 25 At my question he repeated only that the cook had gone to town, and rheumy matter trickled from his eyes.

2006 M. Gregorio Critique Criminal Reason 330 He looked at me with feverish eyes, rheumy tears trickling down his cheeks.

1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. v. sig. G The reumy vault will force your eyes to weepe, Whilst you behold true desolation.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 265 Will he steale out of his wholsome bed To..tempt the Rhewmy, and vnpurged Ayre, To adde vnto his [printed hit] sicknesse? View more context for this quotation

1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray v. i The night..with her raw And rheumy damps infests the dusky air.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 12 Forthwith, on rheumy pinions [L. madidis alis] hieth he.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xxvii. 287 The two sisters walked..into the rheumy air.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 36 Too-much Cold..Withers his face, hollowes his Rhewmie eyes.

1614 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 414 Base rheumy rascals.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 24 His head, and rhumy eyes, distill in showers.

1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xiv. 221 This may be sufficient for most Rheumy Sore or Blood-shot Eyes.

1768 W. Wilkie Fables 136 Fatigu'd and sick, he looks upon his watch With Rheumy eyes and forehead aching sore.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 204 The rheumy soberness of extreme age.

1842 A. T. de Vere Song of Faith 197 Blear eyes scalded in their rheumy flood.

1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 158/2 Yet still I love it, that old, stained, absurd, preposterous, prismatic, rheumy thing.

1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vii. 108 There was a leer in his rheumy peepers as he gave Marianne a mental strip.

2006 New Yorker 26 June 46/1 An old woman, with rheumy eyes and salon-smoothed white curls.

1851 Harper's Mag. Mar. 496/2 In the Champs Elysées I heard a rheumy-eyed Invalide cry with the sonorous enthusiasm of Austerlitz, ‘Vive Napoleon!’

1927 Amer. Mercury Jan. 24/2 He loved to sit in the middle of his grove at night, still and pensive amid the falling leaves, like a rheumy-eyed hamadryad.

2006 J. L. Burke Pegasus Descending (2007) xi. 181 He glared up at her, rheumy-eyed, his jaws unshaved, his face aged by ten years in the last ten minutes.

1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xxi. 330 Our eyes, which had known no sleep since Friday night, peered rheumily out over the whitening landscape.

1985 A. Kenny Path from Rome (1986) iii. 47 Sitting totally motionless, he enunciated rheumily, in a barely audible voice, theses about the analogy of being.

2001 Guardian (Nexis) 21 May (Sport section) 13 Those rheumily ancient grey-blue eyes flicker momentarily and humorously back.