a. Phys. [f. LYMPH + -OUS.] † a. Of vegetable fluids: Watery (obs.).

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  b.  Of animal fluids: Containing, of the nature of, or resembling lymph.

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1672–3.  Grew, Anat. Plants, II. iii. (1682), 67. The Milky Saps … agree, in being more Oyly than any of the Lymphous Saps.

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1876.  W. Roberts, Urin. & Renal Dis., II. iv. (ed. 3), 323. The coagulum in lymphous urine resembles calf’s foot or currant jelly.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 1078. The lymphous fluid soiling the patient’s clothes.

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