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rheum

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5 lettersPronunciation /ɹuːm/Part of speech nounSorted ehmruStarts with REnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose)

Word origin

From Middle English reume, rewme, from Anglo-Norman reume, from Late Latin rheuma, from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, humour”). Doublet of stream.

Used in a sentence

  • You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]
  • He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum.

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