Definition of "rheum" [‖Rhe•um•rheum]

• A watery or thin mucous discharge from the eyes or nose. (noun)

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• "The diseases of the body explain themselves by their increase; we find that to be the gout which we called a rheum or a strain; the diseases of the soul, the greater they are, keep, themselves the most obscure; the most sick are the least sensible; therefore it is that with an unrelenting hand they most often, in full day, be taken to task, opened, and torn from the hollow of the heart."
• "They have the power (MONEY) and will attack everyone that disagrees with them. sade rheum"
• "DROMIO: I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between France and it."