Word Meanings - RHEUMATISMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.

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• RHEUM
  A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• RHEUMATISMOID
  Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.
• RHEUMIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum. Rheumic diathesis. See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.
• RHEUMATIC
  Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day. That rheumatic diseases do abound. Shak. (more info) 1. Derived from, or having
• RHEUMATISM
  A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart. Inflammatory rheumatism , acute rheumatism attended with
• RHEUMY
  Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum. His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers. Dryden. And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness. Shak.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• RHEUMIDES
  The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RHEUMATISMAL
  Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• ENRHEUM
  To contract a rheum. Harvey.
• SALT RHEUM
  A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.