adj. Insatiably thirsty (like someone with dropsy).
adj. Swollen with water.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Containing or produced by water; dropsical.
n. A medicine that relieves or cures dropsy.
n. A dropsical person.
Word Usage
"In the convulsive asthma these sweats do not occur; hence they may be distinguished; and might be called the hydropic asthma, and the epileptic asthma."