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rheum (n.) Old form(s): rheume , rhewme
watery discharge, seepage [especially of the eyes]
AC III.ii.57[Enobarbus to Agrippa, of Antony] he was troubled with a rheum
CE III.ii.135[Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse, of the kitchen wench] the salt rheum
KJ III.i.22[Constance to Salisbury] Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum
R2 I.iv.8[Aumerle to King Richard] the north-east wind ... / Awaked the sleeping rheum
TC V.iii.104[Pandarus to Troilus] I have rheum in mine eyes too
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