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gouty, a.|ˈgaʊtɪ|
[f. gout n.1 + -y1.]
1. Affected with gout; subject to gout.
c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus's Wife 713 Potagre and gowty & halt he was eek. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. Let. v. Cc iij, O ye olde gowtie people, ye forget youre selfe, and runne in poste, after the lyfe. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. ix. (1591) 6 Hordeonius Flaccus..a man aged and gowtie. 1602Return fr. Parnass. ii. ii. (Arb.) 23 Ought his gowty fists then first with gold be greased? 1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. ii. v. Wks. 1878 I. 64 My legge is not goutie. a1668Davenant Gondibert i. vi. 37 Not giving like to those, whose gifts though scant Pain them as if they gave with gowty hand. 1693Dryden Persius v. 78 Knots upon his Gouty Joints appear. 1712Steele Spect. No. 472 ⁋1 Would such gouty Persons administer to the Necessities of Men disabled like themselves. 1772Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 IV. 538 But I being gouty of late, seldom go into the city. 1875B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 46 A gentleman..of gouty habit, and habitually dyspeptic.
absol.1799Med. Jrnl. I. 151 Dyspepsia, the inseparable companion of the gouty.
fig.1656Cowley Ode to Wit iv, 'Tis not to force some lifeless Verses meet With their five gowty feet. 1735Berkeley Querist §424 Whether the want thereof [money] doth not render the state gouty and inactive?
†b. Of birds: cf. gout n.1 2. Obs.
1600Surflet Country Farme vii. lvi. 887 The nightingale hauing beene two or three yeeres in the cage, becommeth goutie: nowe when you shall perceiue it, annoint her feet with butter.
†c. Of a horse's legs: Swollen, affected with swellings. Also of the animal so affected. Obs.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §56 Yf thou shalte by oxen for the ploughe, se that they be yonge, and not gowty. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 115 The legges and the thyes [of a horse]..ought to be euen, straight, and sound, not gouty..with much fleshe and vaynes [citra venarum ac carnium obesitatem aut tumorem aliquem].
2. Of or pertaining to gout; of the nature of gout.
1615Crooke Body of Man 285 To make a calculous impression in the Kidneys, or a gowty impression in the ioyntes is onely proper to the seede. 1724Blackmore Treat. Consumpt. 23 There are likewise other Causes of Blood-spitting; one is the Settlement of a gouty Matter in the Substance of the Lungs. 1748Richardson Clarissa I. v. 31 Under the torture of a gouty paroxysm. 1846G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 477 Gouty concretions, which frequently form on the joints of the hands and feet. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. v. VI. 16 The neuralgic maladies press sore, and the gouty twinges. 1879M. Pattison Milton 151 He was very abstemious in his diet, having to contend with a gouty diathesis.
b. Used during an attack of gout.
1733–4Berkeley in Fraser Life vi. (1871) 215, I hope..to be able to put on my gouty shoes. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iv. i, Here's an old gouty chair of my grandfather's. 1794A. M. Bennett Ellen IV. 59, I..will take my old seat on the gouty stool, and tell my dear grandfather [etc.]. 1825Morisoniana (1831) 218 The gouty patient may now..burn his gouty shoes.
c. Having a tendency to produce gout.
1802T. Beddoes Hygëia viii. 164 The weaker wines of France are reputed more gouty than those in common use among the English. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 182 Champagnes, especially the sweeter sorts, are undoubtedly gouty wines.
3. transf. and fig. Swollen or bulging, so as to be out of shape or disproportioned; distorted with swellings or protuberances; tumid.
1595Copley Wits, Fittes & Fancies 41 He that euermore alleadgeth in his conuersation other mens sayings, is like a gowty naile, that cannot enter the wood, except an augar make the way before. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 105 This humour in Historians hath made the body of ancient History in some parts so gouty and monstrous. a1704T. Brown Collect. Dial. i. 18 You cannot imagine what a Mortification it is for a Noble Author..to have his Song tagg'd with half a dozen gouty Stanzas by a Grub street Hand. 1790Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 477 The p. arm [of Saturn's ring] is a little gouty. 1848Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 6. 310 There is no mistaking this mite from its size..and its gouty unfashioned legs. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 441/2 Rustic masonry, ill⁓formed festoons, and gouty balustrades.
b. Of the stems of vegetables, and their joints; also of thread: Full of knots or knobs, knotty. Obs. exc. dial.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. xii. §2. 14 Long and slender stemmes, jointed with many knobbie and gowtie knees. 1677Holyoke Dict., Crassa Minerva, spun with a gouty thread, bungling work. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. Note hh (1727) 391 Which..makes the young Shoots tumify, and grow knotty and gouty. 1896Warwicksh Gloss., Gouty, knobby, knotty: usually applied to rough thread, worsted, silk, etc.
†4. Of land: Boggy (see quot. 1790). Obs.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 109 The black moorish and gouty grounds of the Moorelands. 1790W. Marshall Midl. Co. II. 437 Gouty, diseased and swelled by subterraneous water; as boggy tumours, at the bottom, or on the side of a hill.
5. Comb., as gouty-bagged, gouty-handed, gouty-legged adjs.; gouty-stem (tree), the Australian baobab (Adansonia Gregorii).
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 Holy S. Taurbard, in what droues the *gouty bagd Londoners hurry down [etc.].
a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 153 His liberality can never be said to be *gowty-handed.
1611Cotgr., Podagre, *gowtie-legd.
1846Stokes Discov. Australia II. iii. 115 The *gouty-stem tree..bears a very fragrant white flower, not unlike the jasmine. 1889J. H. Maiden Usef. Nat. Plants Austral. 60 Sterculia rupestris..The ‘Bottle-tree’ of N.E. Australia, and also called ‘Gouty-stem’, on account of the extraordinary shape of the trunk.
Hence ˈgoutily adv.; ˈgoutiness, tendency to gout lit. and fig.; ˈgoutyish a., somewhat gouty.
1632Sherwood s.v., Goutinesse, la douleur de la goutte. 1700Wallace in Phil. Trans. XXI. 541 All have been frequently here except Captain Diego who is Goutyish. 1820Q. Rev. XXIII. 180 An Englishman is encumbered with a certain goutiness of mind. 1864Hawthorne Dolliver Rom. (1879) 53 He had met the grim old wreck of Colonel Dabney, moving goutily. 1890Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Jan. 184/1 There is probably more gout and goutiness in London than in any other spot on the globe. |