all-flower watern.

Brit.

/ˌɔːlˌflaʊə ˈwɔːtə/, U.S.

/ˌɔlˌflaʊər ˈwɔdər/,

/ˌɑlˌflaʊər ˈwɑdər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: all adj., flower n., water n.

Etymology: < all adj. + flower n. + water n., after post-classical Latin aqua omnium florum (second half of the 17th cent. or earlier). Compare French eau de mille-fleurs (second half of the 17th cent. or earlier).

Now historical.

A preparation made from the urine or dung of cows (esp. when they were put out to grass in spring), used as a remedy for various medical complaints.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > animal excrement or urine

album graecum1584

all-flower water?1705

?1705 T. D'Urfey Ess. towards Theory of Intelligible World 78 There's Dr. Salmon would have bought her [sc. a cow], Tho meerly for her All-flower Water.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 178/2 Aqua omnium florum, in pharmacy, the water distilled from the dung of cows, when they go to grass: in english, all-flower-water.

1821 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœia (new ed.) 201 All flower water. Cows urine. Urina vaccæ. Used as a purge, half a pint drank warm from the cow.

1839 T. Otway Tour in Connaught 142 Salt, the blood of a black hen, and allflower-water.

1913 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 95 All flower water was given to patients suffering with asthma.

2001 C. Griffin-Kremer in L. Del Giudice & G. Porter Imagined States 181 In quite recent Irish practice,..nothing was better than cow urine—euphemistically known as ‘all-flower water’—to calm recalcitrant beasts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	all-flower water
释义	all-flower watern. Brit. /ˌɔːlˌflaʊə ˈwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˌɔlˌflaʊər ˈwɔdər/, /ˌɑlˌflaʊər ˈwɑdər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: all adj., flower n., water n. Etymology: < all adj. + flower n. + water n., after post-classical Latin aqua omnium florum (second half of the 17th cent. or earlier). Compare French eau de mille-fleurs (second half of the 17th cent. or earlier). Now historical. A preparation made from the urine or dung of cows (esp. when they were put out to grass in spring), used as a remedy for various medical complaints. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > animal excrement or urine album graecum1584 all-flower water?1705 ?1705 T. D'Urfey Ess. towards Theory of Intelligible World 78 There's Dr. Salmon would have bought her [sc. a cow], Tho meerly for her All-flower Water. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 178/2 Aqua omnium florum, in pharmacy, the water distilled from the dung of cows, when they go to grass: in english, all-flower-water. 1821 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœia (new ed.) 201 All flower water. Cows urine. Urina vaccæ. Used as a purge, half a pint drank warm from the cow. 1839 T. Otway Tour in Connaught 142 Salt, the blood of a black hen, and allflower-water. 1913 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 95 All flower water was given to patients suffering with asthma. 2001 C. Griffin-Kremer in L. Del Giudice & G. Porter Imagined States 181 In quite recent Irish practice,..nothing was better than cow urine—euphemistically known as ‘all-flower water’—to calm recalcitrant beasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1705
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