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  • n  a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose)
  • n  rhubarb

  • There was plenty of rheum at the top.
  • One of his comrades was drowned in a river whirlpool; he himself nigh died of a jungle rheum.
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  • William Shakespeare in Washington Post
    The gout and rheum, that in lag hours attend for grey approachers,Shakespeare says of the elderly -- using the English spelling, with an e, which has the virtue of distancing gray from gravy and gravel.

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