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gout
/ɡaʊt/
noun 5verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
affected
VERB + GOUT
get, suffers
GOUT + NOUN
feet, remainder, sluice
PREP.
from, through, with
ADV.
anyway, largely, once
Definitions
noun
1
An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
2
A drop; a spurt or splotch.
Alternative forms: gut, gutt
I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
3
A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
verb
1
To spurt.
Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.
noun
1
Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).
... Anton's Gout, let it be enlarged to whatever extent it may. The Sill of Anton's Gout is 2 feet 3 inches higher than the Sill of Maud Foster, and the surface of the water, in times when there is a full quantity in the Witham, and as[…]
... Anton's Gout, and the remainder was drained through Maud Foster's Gout, a sluice discharging the waters into Boston Haven, a mile below the town. In 1801, an Act was obtained for the drainage of these fens, the area of which was[…]
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Synonyms
noun — a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by def
- urarthritis
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Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
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Alternative forms: gut, gutt
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I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
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Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.
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... Anton's Gout, let it be enlarged to whatever extent it may. The Sill of Anton's Gout is 2 feet 3 inches higher than the Sill of Maud Foster, and the surface of the water, in times when there is a
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... Anton's Gout, and the remainder was drained through Maud Foster's Gout, a sluice discharging the waters into Boston Haven, a mile below the town. In 1801, an Act was obtained for the drainage of t
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