Crossword clues for rheumy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rheumy \Rheum"y\, a. Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers.
--Dryden.
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
To add unto his sickness.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from rheum + -y (2).
Wiktionary
a. of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery
WordNet
adj. moist, damp, wet (especially of air); "the raw and theumy damp of night air"
of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid]
Usage examples of "rheumy".
Hunger had wasted their sallow cheeks, and the air of noisome dungeons had sunken their rheumy eyes.
And then at length with the great red umbrella of royalty held over him, came the Sultan himself, the elderly sensualist, with his dusky cheeks, his rheumy eyes, his thick lips, and his heavy nostrils.
Lieserl, through her ruined, rheumy old eyes, was barely able to recognize Phillida - this young, weeping woman, only a few months older than when she had held up her baby girl to the Sun.
The old man stooped over his broom as Maia bent to catch his rheumy eye.
A gift from Old Coot Bennettbefore the light left his rheumy eyeswhich he had sworn was a true meteorite.
The weathered Sherpa raked his rheumy eyes from Sky Captain to Polly, then to his Vienna sausages, as if weighing his obligations.
Now he was collapsed into the corner of the booth, his shoulders hunched forward, neck sunk into his frame, sightless rheumy eyes gaping at the onlookers, his mouth rimmed with cracked flesh frozen in a silent scream.
He nodded, murmured notes into Virtual receptors, absorbed, analytical, his blue, rheumy eyes bright in Virtual light.
His rheumy eyes were vague, as he considered prospects invisible to Pirius.
He stood before the Ghost, hands on hips, rheumy eyes alive with interest.
Instantly roused from her light doze, she jerked and blinked up at him, her rheumy eyes fighting to focus upon his features.
He was seventy-three, and could easily pass for twice that age-a shrunken, leathery little man with rheumy, cataracted eyes and a flat, drooping face.
For six weeks hewas a tramp, a thoroughly washed-out hopeless rumdum, with rheumy eyes and palsied hands and a weak bladder.
The king of the Djinn sat in the passenger seat next to Brine, his rheumy blue eyes just clearing the dashboard.
But when finally they kicked open the door and burst into the neat rooms, only an old, white-muzzled boarhound lay regarding them with rheumy eyes, his tail slowly thumping a welcome.