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Meaning of water sickness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Dropsy.

archaic, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Water sickness, or general dropsy, also frequently takes place among sheep.”

“For water sickness (dropsy), or stones in the bladder, the cure was elder (sambucus, B.P.), for which also it is claimed “all things which are generated on a man's body to loathe, it thoroughly will heal.””

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

water sign water skater water ski water skiing water skipper water sky