Rheum vs Slumber - What's the difference?
rheum | slumber |
(uncountable) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.
* 1916 , (James Joyce), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Macmillan Press Ltd, 102
Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a cold, catarrh; rheumatism.
*, II.8:
(poetic) Tears.
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
* Bible, Psalms cxxi. 4
To be inactive or negligent.
(obsolete) To lay to sleep.
(obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
As nouns the difference between rheum and slumber
is that rheum is watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease while slumber is a very light state of sleep, almost awake.As a verb slumber is
to be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.rheum
English
(wikipedia rheum)Noun
- He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum .
- hehad all his faculties free and easie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his stomacke.
Hyponyms
* (dried rheum around eyes) crusty (slang), gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)Derived terms
* rheumatic * rheumatism * rheumyslumber
English
(wikipedia slumber)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He at last fell into a slumber , and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. — Bunyan.
- Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber . — Shakespeare.
- Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. — Dryden.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
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