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rheumatics

/ ruːˈmætɪks /

noun

  1. informal.
    functioning as singular rheumatism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.

How is the rheumatics?—How are you, Hugh?—Is this your youngest, Mrs. Roberts?

"When all the old dame wants is a charm for the rheumatics; and she thinks the chance too good to be lost."

He’s spry enough to go clammin’ in the summer; an’ he kin steer a boat when his rheumatics ain’t so bad.

"Nothing," said I, "except that the Rev. Milray suffers from the rheumatics."

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