Gouty \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.
He wrote three novels in collaboration with his idol, Joseph Conrad, and had a hand in four more (he actually wrote 15 pages of "Nostromo" when Conrad collapsed in a gouty funk).