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What does rheum mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. [from 14th c.]
  2. Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a cold, catarrh; rheumatism. [from 14th c.]
  3. (poetic) Tears. [from 16th c.]
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English rhubarb is principally produced at Banbury, Oxfordshire, from the rheum rhaponticum.
Here for instance are the directions to be given a patient suffering from rheum or catarrh.
When Morgan lifts his glasses to wipe the rheum from his eyes it seems there is nothing crueller than ageing.
The ease with which she climbed suggested a much younger woman, as did her eyes, which were clear and alert, free of the rheum typical of the aged.
We were planting jungle-type plants like rheum, gunnera and macleaya so it must have been one of those hairy-leafed blighters.
I must have blinked too, to get the sleeping rheum out of my eyes – something had got into them, surely… Because this could not be right.

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