Rheumatism
['ruːmətɪz(ə)m] or ['rumətɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues.
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To feel rheumatism attacking you in a dream, foretells unexpected delay in the accomplishment of plans. To see others so afflicted brings disappointments.
Checker: Prudence
Examples
- Mr. Pickwick was laid up with an attack of rheumatism. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Now, Jim, walk like old Uncle Cudjoe, when he has the rheumatism, said his master. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The soldier stands on picket duty in the rain, and the rubber blanket protects him from rheumatism. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Rheumatism, sir? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They MUST NOT vary the rheumatism with amusement. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This is useful in rheumatism, neuralgia, headache, toothache, and all nervous pains. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- And the attack of rheumatism which I caught in that garden,' said Mr. Pickwick, in conclusion, 'renders me lame at this moment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It would kill you with rheumatism. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A horse so treated would develop a slight lameness, which would be put down to a strain in exercise or a touch of rheumatism, but never to foul play. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She might have been sixty, but was older than that by hard work and disease, was partially blind, and somewhat crippled with rheumatism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I could ask old women about their rheumatisms and order half-a-crown's worth of soup for the poor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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