gout
Speech parts
1. gout - Noun
2. gout - Verb
Meaning
A drop; a clot or coagulation.
A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.
A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.
Taste; relish.
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. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.
Gout is the sickness of the rich.
Don't settle in a place where the doctor has gout.