Gout
[gaʊt] or [ɡaʊt]
Definition
(noun.) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints.
Typist: Perry--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A drop; a clot or coagulation.
(n.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.
(n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.
(n.) Taste; relish.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Synonymous
(goo), n. [Fr.] Taste, relish, flavor, smack, savor, gusto, zest.
n. Podagra.
Typed by Anton
Definition
n. an acute inflammation of the smaller joints and esp. of the great toe in persons of luxurious habits and past middle life: (obs.) a drop.—adv. Gout′ily.—ns. Gout′iness; Gout′wort Gout′weed an umbelliferous European plant long supposed to be good for gout.—adj. Gout′y relating to gout: diseased with or subject to gout.
n. taste: relish.
Edited by Donnie
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of having the gout, you will be sure to be exasperated beyond endurance by the silly conduct of some relative, and suffer small financial loss through the same person.
Checker: Uriah
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.
Typist: Sophie
Unserious Contents or Definition
The undesirable scion of High Living, which frequent the lowest joints and is mentioned only in the Invalid's Foot-Notes.
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- Yes, returned Herbert, and you may suppose how mild it makes his gout. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As he advanced in years, however, he became subject to fits of the gout, to which, in 1782, a nephritic cholic was superadded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A fit of the gout produces a long train of passions, as grief, hope, fear; but is not derived immediately from any affection or idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Sir Leicester receives the gout as a troublesome demon, but still a demon of the patrician order. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He has a twist of the gout now and then and walks a little stiffly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But it's given my father gout very badly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty--cram full of gout, too. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I must agree with you that the gout is bad, and that the stone is worse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A man with the gout in his right hand--and everywhere else--can't expect to get through a Double Gloucester without hurting himself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has gout. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typist: Trevor