Definition of "hydropical" []

• Dropsical. (adjective)
• Insatiably thirsty. (adjective)
• Swollen with water. (adjective)

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• "Who would expect a quick flame from hydropical Heraclitus?"
• "In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest"
• "The leaves of the mulberry should be collected from trees of seven or eight years old; if of such as are very young, it impairs their growth, neither are they so healthful for the worms, making them hydropical, and apt to burst: As do also the leaves of such trees as be planted in a too waterish, or over-rich soil, or where no sun comes, and all sick, and yellow leaves are hurtful."