Hydropsy


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Hy´drop`sy


n.1.Same as Dropsy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Hydropsy Abdominal Over Total inability fat to strain 1 2 3 -- 34 2 4 2 -- 39 3 -- 1 -- 11 4 -- -- 2 9 5 -- 3 4 22 6 9 6 115 Table 3: Treatment opted to resolve dystocia Sr.
Here, and elsewhere in the novel, the author's metaphors blend the landscape with a human being by attributing to it either bodily states and injuries (paleness, bums, hydropsy) or emotional states ("sullen" and "mortified").
(33) The poet himself continued to live with his afflictions, to which was added hydropsy (edema), and remained in hiding--perhaps out of necessity, but certainly because he was convinced, until the end, that exhibiting his poverty would be the worst disaster: