ice watern.

1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie vii. 70 Then describeth hee [sc. Cornelius Colsus] snow or yce water.

1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Idea Pract. Physick i. 18/2 Water is either, 1. Raine water... 2. Snow and Ice-water.

a1775 J. Campbell Lives Brit. Admirals (1779) IV. xxiv. 351 The bad qualities which for so many ages have been attributed to melted snow and ice-water are destitute of all foundation.

1838 Jrnl. Royal Geol. Soc. Ireland 1 325 There is no doubt, but that the larger ones [sc. glacial tubes] are often greatly deepened and enlarged, by the flowing into them of the ice water, from the surface of the glacier.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 2/3 He and I are going up to where the icewater tinkles at noon under the blue glacier-ice.

2000 N. Jans Tracks of Unseen 134 We camped by a clear ice-water tarn, watched a new waterfall being born.

1669 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company 122 Others ascribe his death to a violent Cold he took by drinking of a glass of of [sic] Ice-Water.

1722 London Gaz. No. 6035/1 The..Ladies were..entertained with all sorts of..Chocolate, Ice-Waters, &c.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 152 About noon..the carriage stopped at a post-house, and ice-water was handed through the window.

1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xvii. 220 The injured part should be bathed frequently with ice-water.

1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xxi. 203 With quick, professional instinct Miss Sampson sprang forward seizing, as she did so, an ice-water pitcher from the table.

1969 New Yorker 6 Sept. 35/1 She will..arrange them, filling the Chinese bowl with ice water, carefully clipping the stems.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) vi. 183 Swine Flu threw ice water on the previously warm relationship between public health and individual rights.

2009 C. Messud in N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 July 46/4 At each meal he brought them their ice water and cleared their plates.