Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RUM'BUD, n.

A grog blossom; the popular name of a redness occasioned by the detestable practice of excessive drinking. Rumbuds usually appear first on the nose, and gradually extend over the face. This term seems to have reference to the disease technically defined to be an unsuppurative papule, stationary, confluent, red, mottled with purple, chiefly affecting the face, sometimes produced, and always aggravated by the use of alcoholic liquors, by exposure to heat, &c. It is technically called Ionthus corymbifer, and popularly, pimpled face. Rush.