Middle English Dictionary Entry
reume n.
Entry Info
| Forms | reume n. Also rume, rēm(e, reame, remme, (Latinate) reuma. . |
| Etymology | L rheuma, reuma & OF reume, rieume, rume; ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Med.: (a) A watery fluid or humor conceived as draining from the higher parts of the body, and capable of causing diseases; a secretion, flux; (b) a cold in the head; catarrh; ~ in the hed; cold ~.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)84a/a : Ferst a rewme renneþ to þe yȝen & þerof comeþ an yuel þat hatte obtalmia, a schrewed blereynes & ache & aposteme.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)231a/a : The herbe is colde..and druye..þerfore he..abateth hoot rewme.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)220/18 : For reume þat falliþ adoun of a mannis heed, þer wexiþ in þe rote of þe tunge a maner round þing in þe gretnes of an almaunde, & lettiþ a man þat he mai not wel drawe his breeþ ne ete his mete.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)232/20 : Bocium is a postym þat comeþ of humours..sumtyme a rume falliþ adoun of his heed into his necke & makiþ þe matere wexe more.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)52 : Anoþer siknesse comeþ to þe houndes eres..outt of þe rewme of þe hede..for þei clawe hem so mooche..þat þei make moche foule þing come out þerof..and somtyme þerof þei bicome deef.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)56a/b : Reumatizo: to suffre reume.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)31a : Take þe juis ther of and washe the eyne; hit castith oute byndynge and hote reame.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)21b/b : If hote reume descende in to a muscle..first þe grete arteriez..ar repleted..Afterward þe lesse..And fro þens to þe..flesh & panniclez, And þer is made an aposteme.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)89a/a : It is counsailed to þe wircher þat if þer be wiþ vlcerez notable obtalmie, reuma, & aking of þe heued, þat he werie not þe pacient vnto þat þay be cesed.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)106/29-30 : As in þe colrik rewme herisipila is made, so is vdymia made in flewmatyk rewme.
- a1450 Dc.291 Lapid.(Dc 291)p.35 : This thinge helith þe shepe fro reeme.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)124 : This decoccion wole..purge wel þe reumes þat fallen doun fro þe hede.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)94b/b : This akynge makiþ þe reume and þe cours of humouris þe whiche ben drunken in to þe senewy membris and maken hem to schrynken.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)220a/b : Comyn..with bayesof laurir tree..helpeþ cold rewme.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.82 : Kynd conscience..sent forth his foreioures, feures & fluxes..Rewmes & radegoundes.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)136b/a : Discrasiez vlcerez..polipodalez, corriȝe [Ch.(2): þe sneke; L corrize], i. reume, sternutacionz.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)429 : Reem, or rewme of the hed, or of the breste: Reuma.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)2/25 : It is gude also for flewme & reme [marg: remme] in þe hede.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)137/20 : Þis herbe brekyȝt and distroyȝeth þe remme in mannys hed.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)145/7 : Þe jous of þis herbe put in mannys nesetherlys brekyth out reume oþer wycked fylthe of stoppynggis in þe hed or in þe throte.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)35/3 : A goud water for to breke þe reme in a manys heuyd and al-so þe pose.
2.
The tide; also, a violent current, tidal bore.
Associated quotations
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)117b : A werriour on þe see..moot of ebbynge tyme & flowynge be bothe wise & war, ffor þis ebbynge and flowyng þat is Icleped þe rewme [L rheumatis impetus] of þe see ne may not be Imaistred ne ouercome wiþ rowares ores.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2774 : Wel knowe thei the Reume if it arise, An aker is it clept, I vndirstonde.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2777 : This Reume in Thoccian of propur kynde Withoute wynde hath his commotioun..whenne & where..It regneth, he [mariner] moste haue inspectioun.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. rheum.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. rheuma.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. cold rheum.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. rheum in the head.