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dropsical

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His skin was dead looking and hairless; dropsical too, he moved with a shambling gait like a trained bear.

At the end of the table, sitting like a great dropsical gray slug, was William Willoughby, the political symbol of everything her father and men like him despised.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

A tendency to dropsical effusion is generally first shown, besides a puffiness of the face, in the feet and ankles, the shoe or slipper marking off the enlargement above its margin.

Then follows a paragraph from the sermon, dropsical with dullness; and here the article ends.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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