Meaning of gout | Babel Free

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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
2. Taste; relish.
   obsolete
3. 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.
   uncountable
4. A drop; a spurt or splotch.
   countable, uncountable, usually
5. A drop; a spurt or splotch
6. A hereditary disorder caused by painful deposits of crystals in the joints, especially of the big toe, knee, or elbow. It is caused by abnormally high levels of uric acid in the blood.
7. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
   countable, rare, uncountable
8. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae
9. A condition in which uric acid solidifies into crystals in the joints. Kidney tissue may also be affected.
10. To spurt
11. gota, enfermedad hereditaria causada por defecto del metabolismo de ácido úrico.
12. Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”)
13. A disturbance of uric-acid metabolism occurring chiefly in males, characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet and hands, and arthritic attacks resulting from elevated levels of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urate crystals around the joints. The condition can become chronic and result in deformity.
14. A large blob or clot: "and makes it bleed great gouts of blood" (Oscar Wilde).
15. (Pathology) a metabolic disease characterized by painful inflammation of certain joints, esp of the big toe and foot, caused by deposits of sodium urate in them
16. archaic a drop or splash, esp of blood
    archaic
17. taste or good taste
18. a painful inflammation, esp. of the big toe, characterized by an excess of uric acid in the blood that leads to crystalline deposits in the small joints.
19. a mass or splash, as of blood; spurt.

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Examples

“Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.”

“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.”

“... there sprang a gout of black and oozy blood. Whereat a great cry went up and James Mure fell forward on the sand as one suddenly stricken dead.”

“... gouts or drops from the hand of Zeus.”

“... gouts or drops of water on their shield,[…]”

“[S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.”

“Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.”

“McInnis staggered back and to his feet, the chair flying aside, as a gout of blood spurted from the open wound. Veiksaar screamed, and reached up to claw at her husband's face with her fingernails.”

“... 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[…]”

“Vast quantities of water were discharged, which used to enter through the Gout at Langare." - Will. Chapman, Facts and Remarks relative to the Witham and the Welland, 1800, p. 29.”

“[…] reported as to the gout at Aston Somerville […]”

“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 […]”

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