单词 | tar-water |
释义 | tar-watern. 1. An infusion of tar in cold water, formerly in repute as a medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > aqueous decoction or infusion > specific barley waterc1320 oak-water?1523 hydrelaeon?1550 plantain-water1588 lily-water1599 napha water1600 cowslip-water1612 water of magnanimity1659 succory water1670 lime-water1682 onion-water1694 pennyroyal water1699 balm-water1712 forge-water1725 laurel-water1731 aqua mirabilis1736 tar-water1740 milk of lime1784 laurel-cherry water1787 fly-water1815 herb-water1886 1740–1 Berkeley Let. to T. Prior 8 Feb. I believe tar-water might be useful to prevent..such an evil [a felon]. 1744 Berkeley (title) Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water [(ed. 2) Siris, a Chain of Philosophical [etc.]]. 1744 T. Gray Let. 26 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 225 Mr. Trollope & I are in a course of Tar-Water. 1756 H. Walpole Let. 8 Dec. in Corr. (1941) IX. 30 He [Sir Horatio Mann's brother] has been drinking tar water since the middle of November. 1840 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 60 I have also just concocted two gallons of Tar water under the directions of Bishop Berkeley. 1891 W. C. Sydney Eng. 18th Cent. I. 311 No remedy was more popular during the second half of the eighteenth century than tar-water. 2. ‘The ammoniacal water of gas-works’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade, 1858). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1740 |
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