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单词 tar-water
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tar-watern.

Etymology: < tar n.1 + water n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtar-ˌwater.
1. An infusion of tar in cold water, formerly in repute as a medicine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > aqueous decoction or infusion > specific
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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).
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