rheum

• Tesk was red-eyed and runny-nosed from summer rheum, so shocked by the vehemence of the mental shout that he reacted with a great sneeze that nearly flung him from the saddle of his stocky cob. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
• It glimmered murky dim, the rheum-smeared eye of heaven. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
• Madame, I hope Orpheus will not en-rheum himself by his serenading Her lips parted slightly, her eyes chilled--an indescribable thing, but a plain lesson for a man who knew her sex, and Count Victor, in that haughty instinct of her flesh and eye, saw that here was not the place for the approach and opening of flippant parlours in the Rue Beautreillis I fear I have not intruded for the first time," he went on, in a different tone. —  Doom Castle
• 2. Eczema, itching, salt-rheum, sunburn, mosquito bites, boils, burns, bruises, chapped and cracked hands, and all forms of skin eruptions No. —  The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
• Its leaves are sweet, mucilaginous, and expectorant, being, therefore, highly useful in many pulmonary disorders The common Polypody Fern, or "rheum-purging Polypody" grows plentifully in this country on old walls and stumps of trees, in shady places. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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