gout
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Is gout a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, pathology) 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.Examples: "Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global."Synonyms: crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis, rich man's diseaseuncountable
2. (usually followed by of) A drop; a spurt or splotch.Examples: "Alternative forms: gut, gutt"; "I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood."; "... of whose wounds were undefined - and every throb of the veins added length to some of the red streams, that wound down the hollows of the indrawn cheeks - some of them ending in half-clotted gouts or drops."countableuncountableusually
3. (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.countablerareuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To spurt.Examples: "Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Taste; relish.Examples: "After a time, however, he became more sensible of the reviving influence proceeding from renewed energy; luxurious indolence had for ever lost to him its goût;[…]"; "A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary