salt rheum

English

Noun

salt rheum (countable and uncountable, plural salt rheums)

1. (medicine, dated, chiefly US) Any of various cutaneous eruptions, especially eczema.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “salt rheum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)