Gout"y (?), a.

1.

Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.

2.

Pertaining to the gout.

"Gouty matter."

Blackmore.

3.

Swollen, as if from gout.

Derham.

4.

Boggy; as, gouty land.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout. -- Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout. -- Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of urate of sodium.

 

© Webster 1913.

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