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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy;

as, a

dropsical

patient

Of or pertaining to dropsy.

Adj.

[See Dropsy.]

Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; inclined to the dropsy; applied to persons.

Partaking of the nature of the dropsy; applied to disease.

dropsical ‎(comparative more dropsical, superlative most dropsical)

Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dropsy.
- John Updike, Rabbit is Rich:
  Mrs Springer on her painful dropsical legs comes down talking.

relating to water collecting in body cavities and tissues