rheumy

adj

1. Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.
2. Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery.

   “So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […]”

   “The Northern Breath, that freezes Floods, he binds; / VVith all the race of Cloud-diſpelling VVinds: / […] / From his divided Beard tvvo Streams he pours, / His Head and rhumy Eyes diſtill in Shovvers.”

   “But were it not curious to know how Sieyes, now in these days (for he is said to be still alive) looks out on all that Constitution masonry, through the rheumy soberness of extreme age?”

   “Her lips were clammy, but in her rheumy eyes there still burned the light of a vague desire.”

   “[…] Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner’s rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment— […]”

3. (literary, obsolete, poetic)Especially of the air: damp, moist.

   “And vvill he ſteale out of his vvholſome bed / To dare the vile contagion of the Night? / And tempt the Rhevvmy, and vnpurged Ayre, / To adde vnto hit^([sic – meaning his]) ſickneſſe?”

   “The reumy vault vvill force your eyes to vveepe, / VVhilſt you behold true deſolation: […]”

   “Avoiding observation as much as they conveniently could, the two sisters walked from the long wooden shed which formed the station here, into the rheumy air and along the road to the open country.”