Definition of "rheumatiz" [rheumatiz]

• Rheumatism (noun)

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• "She had severe "rheumatiz" and wrapped Sunbeam bread wrappers around her lower legs to keep down the swelling."
• "The "rheumatiz" has much to answer for all through English country-sides, but it never played a scurvier trick than in laying thee by the heels, when thou wast yet in a green old age."
• "Her old parents could help but little, for the "rheumatiz," which attacks age in the mountains, had cramped and knotted their limbs, and they were fit for nothing except in fine dry weather."